Last December 17th Melissa and I went to downtown Gainesville to attend a Candlelight Concert at the Hippodrome Theater...click HERE to read the article I later wrote about our experiences then. This evening we went back down there to the same place for yet another concert, this one a tribute to the Beatles. The featured string quartet performed their renditions of several Beatles hits and is based in Jacksonville...I recognized most of the players from before. I was seven years old when I heard my first Beatles song, I Want to Hold Your Hand, which the Fab Four, as the Beatles were often dubbed, performed on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964...our Candlelight Concert musicians performed this one as well. They also went through several years and albums, doing Help!, Michelle, Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, I Get By With a Little Help from My Friends, All You Need is Love, Penny Lane, Hey Jude, Lady Madonna, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Come Together and Here Comes the Sun. The audience was very enthusiastic and appreciative of this show, as were Melissa and me. They are quite the talented and inspired musicians, these four, and we look forward to another visit with a different theme. The only drawback I saw was the tight, restricted parking available downtown...even the quartet commented on that...
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