In late September, for the girls birthdays, we went to see Elizabeth Mitchell and also Justin Roberts in Des Moines. It was the only cold and crappy day of the fall so far, and that was to bad since they had a lot of other music available. I was afraid that E.M. might be a little strummy and like bedtime for our girls. Who were giant big Justin Roberts fans (and had seemed to move on from Elizabeth) but I was wrong. Elizabeth Mitchell was so graceful and her voice is so wonderful the 45 minutes she was up there was far far far to short. Every night since the girls have fallen asleep to the new CD Sunny Day.
The best part of the concert for me was when Elizabeth was singing "Mystery Train," and asking kids for places the train could take them. 2 or 3 kids said, Des Moines or Ames or crap like that, and Nyssa raised up her hand and said, "Wrigley Field." Which was great because one she is generally shy and doesn't like attention at these kinds of things and it was not only far away, but also not a city but a place. Sure it is the only train Nyssa had ever been on, but that train went to Chicago, so she was understanding the question on a different scale. And as Elizabeth sang it her daughter asked, where is that? and Elizabeth said, "its in Chicago." I thought that was really cute.
Below are 2 really nice videos:
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