La Oreja de VanGogh (5/13)

Deb and I feel that a vital part of our cultural experience is exploring the music available to us here. Actually, there is an absurd amount of music from the 80's available to the listening ear at any given moment. But we have been trying to get into the Latin music scene. One of the groups that Deb has liked since her first trip to Spain is La Oreja de VanGogh (VanGogh's Ear?!?!). I have acquired the taste as well, but I am not able to sing along in Spanish (though I can hum a pretty mean version). Anyway, when Deb heard that they were coming to Santiago, she never stopped talking about wanting to go. So we did!

We got tickets kind of late and the concert was almost sold out, so we got turf (cancha) seats (which really is a misnomer, because there were no seats). But being the unintentional Gringos that we are, we took some folding canvas seats that we brought from the states. Well. When we walked in with them, we got a lot of stares. When people saw what they were, they relaxed, but we were clearly labeled. Oh well. Another irony is we met people from school there. A parent and her daughter came up and we chatted for a long time. I felt very culturally hip.

The concert was a blast. I am so sore from all the jumping. The music, despite the fact that I couldn't intelligably sing along, was great! It was two and a half hours long. (There were four albums worth of music to sing.) Only getting home was a problem. There were so many cars and people, we didn't even try to move until about an hour after the concert. It was worth it though.