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Sinead Live August 8th 1997 at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival

Edmonton (ALB), Canada

by <jamiek@octonet.com>

Just returned home from Edmonton where I saw Sinead pull off a brilliant 75 minute concert at the Edmonton Folk Festival in appalling weather conditions of zero degrees wind chill and pouring rain. Given that it was an outside concert, her performance was nothing short of a courageous and stunning effort. Her playlist was mostly from Gospel Oak and Universal Mother and she ended the evening with an acapella "She Moves through the Fair." An audience of 10,000 braved the chilly conditions with her and we were all enthralled with her bravado. (With the exception of an idiotic reviewer from the Edmonton Journal.) Equally, Sinead looked as happy and seemed to revel in the overwhelming applause.

Great concert, one I'll always remember. What a set of pipes that wee elf has!