Laurie Anderson

Attending a Laurie Anderson concert is a bit like sitting through a self-help conference. It’s like taking a guided meditation through a litany of modern anxieties and yet you come out the other end feeling a cathartic release of sorts. Consider just some of the advice Anderson imparted during the show:

Laurie Anderson Live In Concert

Laurie Anderson with Colin Stetson and Rebecca Foon POP Montreal, Montreal QC, September 26

The breadth of audience is surely a testament to Anderson’s unique career of performances combining pop melodies with countercultural performance art.

This half-century veteran of performance art is more slippery than that proffering a discursive unreliable funny and profound master-class in shaggy-dog philosophy with the festival’s theme of home at its arguable core.

Orange County, USA

Royal Festival Hall, London, UK