While I’m thinking of it… I did manage to catch the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Winter Olympics this past Friday night, and I thought it was pretty darn good, but aside from the athletes, and Wayne Gretzky and the Olympic torch and all that, there were two pieces of the ceremony that simply blew me away:
- k.d. lang singing Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. This is an amazingly incredible performance, filled with so much emotion and power, yet such tenderness and sweetness. If you haven’t seen this performance, you need to. The actual video is not available via YouTube (it comes down almost as quickly as someone puts it up) but here’s the audio from the performance:
- Joni Mitchell singing Both Sides Now to a graceful acrobatic flying performance across amazing images of the Canadian prairie