Often in a multi show tour, the first concert is not the strongest, but tonight's was really well done. If the other shows are better than this, the tour will be phenomenal!
The set list was as Yorkie has posted with the addition of an acapella piece entitled Veni Creator which was placed right before Libera.
This concert also featured a number of new songs, new singers and new spokesmen due to the inevitable changes in the group.
Debuting with new solos tonight were Alex Montoro, Gregor Lumden, Alex Gula, Gabriel Collins, Camden Stewart and Merlin Brouwer. Peter and Leo were new speakers and Alessandro and Alex Gula picked up extra speaking duties. Alex Gula was the official Polish translator as he read every speech to the audience in Polish after the speaker delivered it in English. Alex Montoro is this tour's most prolific soloist contributor and he was on his game. Gregor's first solo (and I beleive Alex Gula's as well) and Gabe's work on all notes super high also stood out to me in this show.
Despite all of the changes, they made it look easy tonight. I was very impressed that they did as well they did with all of the new materials and new roles. The concert itself was quite different from most past events that many of you may have attended. The church was very small and did not have a lot of seating capacity - but it was well filled. The restrictions on photography, recording etc. seem to have been lifted for this show. I had to advise my concert neighbor that I was not going to put up with him taking pictures during the songs, the shutter noise was too distracting. One woman even went up in front of the audience - twice - to record video on her cellphone, before a chaperone chased her away.
The response from the crowd was very enthusiatic, so much so that Libera could have easily done a second encore...unfortunately they were not prepared for this response and didn't have anything ready, instead leaving the audience wanting more....which should spark a lot of enthusiasm for tomorrow night's repeat performance in the City Square.
Tomorrow's forecast calls for rain, here's hoping it ends in time to allow Libera's show to go off without a hitch.
I'm so stoked for next Tuesday!
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