Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That's Bonnie Raitt. On stage, the Harvard drop-out blues singer's voice is as strong as ever, but in a post-concert conversation the hoarseness of a full touring schedule is obvious. After singing in Durham, N.H., last month, she is introduced to the student manager of the concert. "Good concert," she says. "No deaths, no rapes, just a few busts, I hear." In reality, she's just left the people in the audience dancing on top of their chairs after her second encore a few minutes before...
...Durham concert came on the heels of the late April student protests against the Harvard Corporation's decision not to divest itself of stock it holds in companies operating in South Africa. Raitt's reaction was very much in character with her direct, communicative style. She said, "Great. It's about time people got off their ass at Harvard. I think it's great. That's the one thing I missed--a lot of political involvement. In the years that I was building up my career, that seemed to fall by the wayside, and not it's real nice that...
After her concerts, Bergen greets well-wishers backstage; about 5,000 fans are on her mailing list for concert information; 4,300 requested tickets for this concert. "God bless you," some tell her. "See you next time," she replies. Then she heads back to New Jersey with her nurse, full-time companion and chauffeur...
...first album, called simply Karla Bonoff, has so far sold over a quarter of a million copies, a surprisingly strong first-time showing-even considering the endorsement, and occasional vocal contributions, of Karla's friend Linda. Jackson Browne picked Bonoff to open his latest concert tours, and after seven weeks of stumping the South, Southwest and Midwest, she could finally start singing Someone to Lay Down Beside Me without having the audience suspect that she had copped one of Ronstadt's set pieces...
Just now, Bonoff is winding down from all those concert gigs, puttering around her Woodland Hills house, watering plants and trying not to fret...