Having gone to school in L.A., did the Hollywood Bowl hold some extra meaning for you?Īs a brand-new UCLA student, the very first concert I ever saw in Los Angeles was at the Hollywood Bowl. We’re not that far away from the next iteration of what our lives will look like. Maybe in a few weeks - I don’t know what the goal or exact plan is. But to really be in a space that is built to support people coming together and having the people not be there, it was kind of stark.īut also, where we are in the course of this virus and the healing of the country, it did feel really hopeful to know, in a few months, there will be people here again. I was really struck by that, because we’ve all felt so isolated and we have this imagining of community because we’re all having to do it from far apart. Like, you can stand onstage in a majestic place, in a cathedral of music, and it doesn’t mean the same thing without the people there to receive it. It really does bring home the power of the audience.
How bizarre was it to look out and have all those empty boxes and barely any people? You’re trying to do 10 million things in a short amount of time and can’t do anything with the lights until the sun goes down, and it’s like “Hurry up! We have to do the show!” It was chaotic and delightful and crazy and hard and wonderful - just like life. It was so special and it felt really reverent to share that space and to share it with a very small amount of people. So now, to imbue this event with all of the context and the experience of what last year meant, and the impossibility of being in a space like that, it just was so layered. And then having that moment come at the end of 2019 when everyone in my world imagined that we would release this live record last year. It’s so majestic and where it’s nestled and my history with Los Angeles, just what that venue meant to me as a young artist and always kind of dreaming of the possibility - or what felt like an impossibility - of playing the Hollywood Bowl. First and foremost, that place is a little bit like going to church. What did that first headlining show at the Bowl mean for you back in November 2019? It was wild to be in that place empty, and it was hopeful and it was nostalgic. What was it like for you to be back onstage and back at the Hollywood Bowl?
#SARA BAREILLES I CHOOSE YOU LIVE FULL#
'Girls5eva' Soundtrack to Arrive With Peacock Series, Including Sara Bareilles-Penned Song…Īnd now the intimate show - which includes Bareilles’ full band performing an abbreviated set of Amidst the Chaos Tour songs, plus a hilarious performance with her Girls5eva bandmates Renée Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps and Paula Pell - will be shared with a much bigger crowd.īillboard was on site at the Hollywood Bowl for the recording, and we caught up with Bareilles after to discuss the emotions she felt at the initial 2019 show, the new livestream taping and why making Girls5eva amid the COVID-19 pandemic was so cathartic.įirst of all, thanks so much for inviting us to a concert.
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