Kelly has a gorgeous soprano - versatile and vibrant - and puts together a fantastic show that sets off her pipes to perfection. The best part of Kelly's show is that she focuses squarely on the music. She has a 5-person band + 3 back-up singers. Sonically - the music is incredible!!
For this show, Kelly did all of her famous hits, as well as a lot of songs from her current album 'Stronger'. And then she threw in 3 covers, including a a fan-requested cover song (she does a different one each concert). The one for this show was Bruno Mars - 'It Will Rain'. Check it out on YT, because she absolutely KILLED that song - just a stunning, spine-tingling moment.
But there were many such moments in the show.
- She stripped down 'Never Again' and set Kelly's raw vocals against a piano accompaniment. STUNNING.
- She started 'Already Gone' acoustic Acappella with most of the band singing with Kelly. Gorgeous harmonizing. And then when the main instruments started in - Just socked you in the stomach. Really cool.
- The beginning, the end, and every song in between. Yeah. She pretty much kicked ass and left no survivors.
Other cool moments
- The whole venue exploded whenever it was an uptempo song - SUBG, MLWSWY, I Forgive you, Stronger. I mean frenzied jumping up and down, screaming, singing. Nutso fun!!
- The crowd singalong to 'Breakaway', 'Because of You' was really amazing, that everyone knew the words. One of my beefs with the show is that ardent KC fans sing loudly to every.fricken.song... I'm a huge Kelly fan, but please - I wanna listen to the goddess not sing along to her :)
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Favorite moment: Kelly appeared in the crowd singing a cover of Florence and the Machine's 'Heavy In Your Arms'. MESMERIZING and STUNNING. @
Opening act(s): Carolina Liars. They were okay - I only knew one song, 'Show me what I'm looking for'. But man, they sound so much better on their record. Not the strongest voice live. @