Richie Havens Concert

Last night we went to see Richie Havens at the Sellersville Theatre. What an awesome night it was. That was my first ever Richie Havens concert and I was blown away. The opening act was pretty good and the guy played a 21 string guitar. Once Richie took the stage, the crowd went wild. I had no idea what to expect as I had only seen pictures of him and listened to one or two songs of his. He was incredible. I had a number of favorites and will be downloading some of them to my ipod in the next few days (after checking what Casey and Greg have on theirs).

Afterwards, because it is a very small venue, Richie would be signing autographs after the show. Larry had brought 2 record albums for him to sign so we got in line. We only had to wait about 20 minutes before the 4 of us got to meet Richie. He was a wonderful person. He took time to speak with all of us, told us a story about the album cover for Stonehenge and how they had to sneak up to it in tall grass to take the picture, and shook all of our hands a number of times. We thanked him and before we left he gave Greg a big hug. It was a night I will never forget and I have the ticket that Richie signed "To Joan, friends forever, Richie Havens". It was actually pretty funny because Larry had the albums signed (one for Greg and one for Casey), then Richie looked at me and asked if I had anything. I said no and he said "how about your ticket". I fished it out of my pocket and he signed it. Casey had him sign her ticket for Larry.