{"id":8180,"date":"2022-05-23T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/315music.com\/?p=8180"},"modified":"2022-05-23T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:33:51","slug":"review-tori-amos-with-special-guests-gracie-and-rachel-plays-to-a-sold-out-crowd-at-kodak-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/23\/review-tori-amos-with-special-guests-gracie-and-rachel-plays-to-a-sold-out-crowd-at-kodak-center\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Tori Amos with Special Guests Gracie and Rachel Plays to a Sold Out Crowd at Kodak Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photos by Chris Besaw<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review by Camille Tisdell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piano goddess, Tori Amos, gifted us with her presence and energy that made for a lively, nostalgic, and moving night of music. Stopping in at The Kodak Center in Rochester on May 18, stop twenty-one of her forty show Ocean to Ocean Tour. She also brought along for the journey Gracie and Rachel. Tori showed she still has the vocals, power, and wit to make a room light up and fall in love with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting off the evening was the extraordinarily talented and eclectic chamber pop piano and violin duo, Gracie and Rachel. This two-piece consisting of Gracie Coates (pianist, keyboards, vocals) and Rachel Ruggles (violin and backing vocals) are on tour in support of their release Hello Weakness You Make Me Strong <\/em>which was released on Righteous Babe Records. I must admit, I wasn\u2019t sure how to describe their music, but luckily Gracie Coates summed it up perfectly by stating that it is, \u201cmusic for people with anxiety.\u201d I could relate to that. It was quite amazing to hear them combine pop elements of music with keyboards, drums, violin, and some haunting vocals. A few songs that stood out to me were, \u201cStranger\u201d and \u201cGo.\u201d It was also refreshing to see they had a humorous side to them, especially during their rendition of the Kreayshawn hit, \u201cGucci Gucci.\u201d The duo played a thirty-minute set that left this new fan of their music looking forward to checking out more of their stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was time for the evening\u2019s headliner, the one and only Tori Amos. Although promoting her new album Ocean to Ocean<\/em>, she played a wide mix of music from her repertoire, starting with tour staples \u201cJu\u00e1rez\u201d and \u201cBouncing Off Clouds,\u201d and going right into fan favorite \u201cCaught a Lite Sneeze.\u201d Backed by Ash Soan on drums and long-time collaborator Jon Evans on bass, they were the perfect complement to Tori, her keyboards, and of course, her B\u00f6sendorfer piano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A highlight of the show was a touching solo performance of \u201cOysters\u201d from her album Unrepentant Geraldines<\/em>. She shared with the audience that the song was not fan-requested but was called to her to be performed that evening. She grabbed sheet music and said a quick \u201cgood luck everybody\u201d as a potential warning she was playing out of her comfort zone for this song, but there was no need. Tori has always been driven by the \u201cmuses\u201d as she calls it and the muses served her well with this song. Just her, the piano, the audience, poignant lyrics (with a bit of ad-lib) and you couldn\u2019t help falling in love with her performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other highlights of the show included moving performances of \u201cPretty Good Year,\u201d \u201cGirl,\u201d and \u201cPutting the Damage On,\u201d which had more than a few fans tear up. Classics from her first three albums, were such a treat, particularly for long-time Tori fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She ended the show with popular mainstays \u201cCornflake Girl\u201d and \u201cPrecious Things,\u201d with an energetic encore of \u201cTake to the Sky\u201d and \u201cRaspberry Swirl.\u201d The crowd was energized and loved every bit of it. A perfect end to what was already an incredible performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you get the chance, make sure to catch one of her remaining shows on this tour. She hasn\u2019t lost anything in her more than thirty years of touring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos by Chris Besaw Review by Camille Tisdell Piano goddess, Tori Amos, gifted us with her presence and energy that made for a lively, nostalgic, and moving night of music. Stopping in at The Kodak Center in Rochester on May 18, stop twenty-one of her forty show Ocean to Ocean Tour. She also brought along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":8218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,102,23,24],"tags":[5302,5299,1998,5303,2698,5298,5300],"class_list":["post-8180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-gallery","category-rochester","category-rock","category-show-reviews","tag-goddess","tag-gracie-and-rachel","tag-kodak-center","tag-ocean-to-ocean","tag-piano","tag-righteous-babe-records","tag-tori-amos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/315music.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}