An all-day concert (or two-day concert!) with Tina Turner, Bette Midler, Freddy Mercury (solo And in duet with Montserrat Caballet; their “Barcelona” gives me goose-bumps!), Danish singer Sanne Salomonsen, ABBA, Bonnie Tyler, Billy Joel, Enigma, Bruce Springsteen (only performing stuff from the 80’s), Kiss, Mike Oldfield, Enya, Dolly Parton and the one and only…Elvis. An odd mix but our Mothers asked for our fantasy concert!

My fantasy (the short list) is to hear these artists play my favorite of their albums in their entirety. Up close and personal. I could be persuaded to drink courvoisier and wear shades. The Beatles - “Revolver” and “Rubber Soul” LP’s. The Allman Bros. - “Eat a Peach” Taj Mahal - “The Natch’l Blues” Traffic - “Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” Rolling Stones - “Rolling Stones Now” Bruce Springsteen - “Born to Run” - and Frank and I would dance to “Thunder Road”.

Any fantasy experience would have to be accoustic, in a small venue and the fantasy would be to participate/sing along/jam with the artists…The artists would have to include (but certainly not limited to) Nanci Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, Patty Griffin, and Iris DeMent. Groups of old like The Kingston Trio, Peter Paul & Mary and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young…. Summer of ‘67 was heaven LOL!

I attend a concert and I fall in lust with the keyboardist. I stare holes through him the entire performance. I even hang around afterwards hoping to catch his eye. I haven’t been as interested in anyone in a very long time. I lose my nerve and do not speak to him. In the blink of an eye, I lose all hope of consumating my lust - my heart is broken. However, I track him down and begin an on-line relationship with him. He agrees to meet me … I dream of it … it would be heaven … but I’m still waiting …

Actually, I would like to be out in a warm night listening to a Balinese gamelan, watching shadow puppets, drinking good champagne & not being surrounded by tourists!

Ella. Billie, Lester, Louis all the jazz greats non-stop, plus Sinatra

First night of Richard Strauss’s Salome in Dresden. The soprano singing Salome is the American soprano, Judith Martin. Runners up: Kathleen Ferrier in Orfeo, Ezio Pinza singing Don Giovanni at the Old Met.

I’ve never been one for concerts––too many people, too loud, etc. Give me small intimate dark confines like the places I used to go to in Detroit in its hey-day––wonderful singers, good jazz, smokey times. And in Kansas City––small bars with great music. So if I fantasize at all it’s going back there at that time when listening to good sounds was more intimate and touchable.

Patti LaBelle, The Stones, and Michael Buble together in concert for two, my husband and self.

i forgot to add Charles Aznavour

I haven’t had my fantasy concert - or concerts! First on my list has to be Tony Bennett, but being Irish and a lover of that kind of music, I certainly have a strong love of the Chieftains as well. Could I choose either to be the top in concert experience I’d want to see? Not really…they are both musical legends in my opinion, I want to see them both some day.