Long story short: good concert. High points: "Artistiya" and "Coulibaly" (which has one of the best intros in rock music I've heard; it's up there with Franz Ferdinand's "40 Feet", albeit in a completely different style). Amadou and Miriam come across as very genial and personable. Alas, they also speak French very rapidly, so I'd only get bits of what they were saying. (Miriam has this cute habit of saying, "Yeahhh," at the end of each of her numbers.) The backing band was good. The opening act (whose name I've forgotten and I'm too lazy to look up) we all agreed was a bit too Coldplay-ish for our tastes. I'm sure he's a nice guy too, but angsty singer-songwritery wasn't quite right in this context.
Since I'd been teasing Michael earlier
about liking Phish so much, of course I got my comeuppance, since it
turned out that Amadou and Miriam do the jam-band thing in concert...
maybe I'm a closet hippie. Ack!
