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Woodinville, WA
July 10, 1999

Review #1
submitted by Ivy Ng

Since the concert was held at the winery, it was an outdoors, amphitheatre-ish event. With general admission tickets and the seating arrangement generic, my father and I got there 2 1/2 hours early to get a good seat on the lawn. However, over half of the people were already there, and it took awhile to get a place to sit. I heard some stories of how people came at two o'clock to sit as close as possible (the concert started at 8:00).

As I said, this was an outdoors concert, and there were a few consequences due to this: When the Ned Goold trio came out everyone was obviously waiting for Harry, but were quite rude by talking over the music. They played for half an hour or so, and when Harry finally came out the crowd went crazy. He started off with "Charade".

I don't remember the order of the songs, but it was similar of those from other concerts. It was quite a show. Girls kept screaming, "I love you Harry!" and he would just wave and laugh. This woman on the third or fourth row had a sign that read "I'm only a single woman for 21 days. Let's just kiss!" Harry read the sign, and said, "what the hell", and the woman went up to the stage and they kissed. Then Harry laughed and said, "your fiance's gonna kick my ass!" He was the funniest. During "Cry Me a River" this woman was leaving the her seat. Harry saw her and cried, "Baby, you can't go now! I'm in the middle of a song here." and he went off the stage and kissed her. He was cracking jokes about that later, saying, "that woman stuck her tongue in my mouth" and things like that.

Later, he felt like playing a little Cole Porter so he had the band start off "In the Still of the Night". the band must have not done it before, because it took them several tries to get the introduction right, in which after the second try Harry turned around and said, "We suck! We really, really SUCK at this song!" Of course there were other wonderful moments... Harry ended one song on the piano, and went straight to the beginning of another song, but Ben Wolfe (the bassist) already put down the bass and started walking off. Harry said, "What the hell are you doing? You think that the concert was over?" He encored with a big-band arrangement of "MInd over Matter", and it was great. While Leroy Jones (trumpet) did his solo Harry and the trombone player (his name is Lucien Babarien?) were dancing on the piano.

Unfortunately, since it was an outdoors event, a lot of people brought cameras (although the Winery asked not to) and even when they annonced that nothing should be recorded or photographed, people took pictures anyway. I think this was the reason why no one got to get an autograph of Harry. I waited for a while, and the band came out, then the Bassist and drummer, but I didn't see Harry. By then this woman went to all the people waiting and told them that they had to clear the area. If this was the reason why Harry didn't give out autographs, I would like to say that it's unfair to the people like me who did follow the rules and waited (for an autograph) but didn't get one.

That was the only disappointment, however. I can say so much more about the concert, but the only way for anyone to feel the way I felt about it is to go grab some tickets and go to one yourself! You'll definetely get you money's worth, and even more.


Review #2
submitted by Anonymous

This was my very first Harry concert and I can definitely say it wont be my last! He is definitely one of the best performers I have ever seen! The show was held at the local winery outdoor amphitheatre and which is a lovely setting though it was very crowded. Harry started the show with "Charade", I don't remember all the songs in order as I was just so excited by the whole event though I can say he convered most of the Come by Me album as well as "Hear me in the Harmony" from Star Turtle. Leroy Jones did an amazing rendition of "It's a Wonderful World" -- I am now a fan for life. Harry was so entertaining and had a lot of fun with the audience. There was a girl who was getting married in 21 days and wanted a kiss and he gave her one. He also sat down next to people in the front rows, and made jokes about one of the girls in the audience sticking her tongue in his mouth. He was so funny! The show lasted quite a while - again I was just amazed at what an incredible performer he is! They came out for an encore during which Harry stood on top of his piano dancing during Leroy Jones solo. The encore was "Come by Me" and "Mind on the Matter" set to a big band beat. It was just great!

As I had heard that he is really good about signing autographs my cousin and I waited & waited & waited, we heard he wasn't signing because people had brought cameras in and that is strictly against policy and pretty rude if you ask me. I left my camera at home as I had read Harry doesn't like pictures being taken. During our waiting period, Leroy Jones happened to pass so we got his autograph and talked for a moment - it turns out he was from Houma, LA which is where my Aunt was born and very near where I lived as a child. He was absolutely charming and so approachable - thanks Leroy!! Anyway, after waiting for about and hour we trudged up to the entrance of the winery since we had missed every shuttle back to the parking area. We (my cousin & I) knew that my Aunt would eventually come back to the winery looking for us so as luck would have it while we were waiting for my Aunt, the tour buses came through and Harry was in one - we basically begged him to come out and autograph our posters (for the record I have NEVER done anything like this in my life, I don't know what came over me). Harry being the wonderful, wonderful person that he is stopped the bus and got off and signed for us - I will be forever grateful for this. Sadly, another girl who had been standing with my cousin & I asked him for a picture, he was very polite and said he would rather not & the subject was dropped. So, Harry if you ever happen to read this I have to say thank you for indulging my one groupie type experience. You are an incredible performer & as far as I could tell and incredible person!

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