Natalie Merchant – Brussels, Belgium (05/10/10)

Natalie Merchant
May 10, 2010
Ancienne Belgique, Belgium
First show of a short euro tour

Musicians: Mary Wooten, cello
Gabriel Gordon, guitar
Erik Della Penna, guitar

Tracks:
(talk) intro + Robert Graves
Vain and Careless
(talk) Laurence Alma Tadema
If No One Ever Marries Me
(talk) Charles Edward Carryl
The Sleepy Giant
(talk) Mother Goose
The Man in the Wilderness
(talk) Nathalia Crane
The Janitor’s Boy
(talk) Edward Lear
Calico Pie
(talk) Arthur Macy
The Peppery Man
(talk) about the album Leave Your Sleep
Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience
E.E. Cummings
Maggie and Milly and Molly and May
(talk)
Indian Names
(talk) Christina Rossetti
Crying, my Little One
(talk) Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall: to a young child
(talk)
Equestrienne
(encore) (talk) Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land of Nod
Cowboy Romance
Motherland
Carnival
Break Your Heart
Tell Yourself
Kind & Generous
From the Time You Say Goodbye

Notes from the taper:
Issues: had the -15db pad on, big mistake as the show was quite quiet.
Have had to add some gain back in using WaveEditor, have reduced applause to try to match, but it’s still a little high.
Good news: very respectful audience, so not too much talking during tracks

Notes: For the first set and the first track of the encore, Natalie introduced each poem-song
from with information on the poet. I have separated each intro into a track.