REVIEWS:

90 minutes of pure joy was the concert in Vancouver Sunday night March 19. Fiona is so tiny where does that voice come from? While she was using a throat spray her voice was in top shape. the band was absolutely tight and having a lot of fun. allot of people were taking pictures so I hope the throw them up on the net. the crowd was very young. At 52 I was the oldest there I bet. I just think Fiona and her group are one hot jazz band. Fiona seems like 14 going on 40. Part punk rocker, part nina simone, part laura nyro, part janis joplin. WOW. I was blown away by the range of her voice. The venue, The restored Orpheum Theatre was a perfect venue.

I just had the best two nights of my life.  Saturday, March 18, I sat only 10 rows from the stage at the Paramount in Seattle...and Sunday, March 19, I sat only 2 rows from the stage at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver!  It was so incredible to see Fiona perform live...especially twice!!!  Oh my god...she just blew me away.  At times during her shows, I had the courage to sing along to myself and just gaze at her...but other times I was just too enthralled with her voice and piano playing to even move.  I got chills throughout every minute of both shows.  I love how energetic and friendly Fiona is on stage.  Her dancing just drives me crazy---she is so damn cute, I can't even describe it.  Being only about 10 feet away from her in Vancouver, I could see her every move and expression while standing at the microphone and at the piano, and she is so gracious and beautiful that I don't know what to do with myself.  At the show in Seattle, I ran up to the stage after "To Your Love" while she was talking, and handed her a present.  She grabbed it and said "ooooh, presents!"  I was so happy!!!  I sort of backed up slowly to my seat, fumbling in shock, that she actually took it and was excited about it.  Then, after that absolutely amazing show, we waited for her by her tour bus....and when she finally came out, every one feasted on her like starving hawks.  I had to shout "Fiona, I'm the one who gave you the present"  and she made sure to single me out and thank me for the incense and the wind chime I gave her...she looked at me and said " It makes such a nice sound" and then she signed the cover of my "Tidal" album.  I just kept taking more and more pictures of her up close. . . and then I realized that her signature was smudged, so I held it out for her again, on the other side of the booklet, and she signed it again, and looked up at me with her big eyes, and I said "I love you Fiona" and reached my hand out to her not knowing what to expect.  But like the lovely Fiona, she just reached up to me and squeezed me hands through her little black gloves with a big smile on her face.  I just about died right there.  OOOH, it was such an incredible night...I started crying because I was so happy on the way back to the car.  Thinking that nothing would ever top that, Steve and I headed to Vancouver the very next day, and were only blown farther away from where we stood after the Seattle show.  God, she is so amazing.  These were the best two nights of my entire life...to finally meet, see, talk to, smile to, and touch my greatest inspiration and soul mate...FIONA*

From--Heather

I just wanted to add my two cents. While I didn't have the best seat 11th row on the far right of the stage in the Orpheum -Fiona's piano was on the far left and we could barely see her when she was behind the piano - we thought she was amazing. I was with my friend Kinnie Starr - she and I are also singer/ songwriters, Kinnie being on her way to fame, and me not anywhere near. As such, we are both critical music listeners and were paying attention to all the technical aspects of the show. Kinnie isn't that familiar with Fiona's stuff and I think was prepared to have a negative view, but we both just loved the show and thought Fiona was such a freaky/ cutey. We were laughing at her, cuz her dancing is so silly and unrhythmic compared to to her amazing musical sensibility and rhythm when she plays and sings. I first heard and listened to her in the spring of 1996, when a friend made a tape of Tidal, before it broke. I thought this was the work of a seasoned, bitter black soul singer in her late 30's or 40's. A year later when the shit hit the fan, I was almost disappointed and amazed that she was an impish teenager. That teenage sensibility sure came out on stage whenever she spoke to the audience, I wanted  to run up and hug her, she was so cute. She was then seems to become possessed by said older black woman. Its bizarre .........

Anyway, she rocks so hard and even though I'm getting old at 32, I'm a pretty immature 32 year old and will give to childish crushes and say - I love Fiona, she's a gift .....

Camille