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I love Fiest and her music.  She’s a fantastic song-writer, singer, and performer.  She’s got so much spunk and talent, that it’s hard not to love her music.

Seeing as how she was going to be in town, I got a chance to pick up two tickets for the concert last weekend at the NAC.  It was kind of strange that she wasn’t playing at a smaller venue like the Bronson Center, but I guess she’s a lot more popular now that she’s won all those Juno awards.

So anyways, Renata and I went to see her on Saturday night at the NAC, and we were both surprisingly dissapointed.  She put on a great performance, and her music is even better live.  She’s got more energy and emotion when it’s live.

However, for whatever reason, she decided to add shadow puppets to her show.  I shit you not, boy-scout campfire style shadow puppets.

Each song would have its own shadow puppet theme, complete with props for the overhead projector.  And each shadow puppet show, was just as frustrating and distracting as the rest.  It was so in-your-face pretentious that it distracted from the music and Feist herself.

We came to listen to a concert, and were instead bludgeoned with an overly artsy light show.  Too bad.  If she simply didn’t have that part incorporated into her show it would’ve been an amazing concert.

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