Melissa Etherage concert

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iodine
iodine Member Posts: 4,289
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

My daughter and I wentt Sundaybefore last to the Ryman in Nashville and it was a teriffic concert--that woman didn't leave the stage for 2 hours and 45 min.  Some show. What a strong voice she has!  Had to give her a lot of credit re: I Run For Life.

I was amazed at the roar from an estrogen filled facility (LOL)  when she began singing that song!  She asked for a show of hands from surviviors and then from care givers.  Incredible.  I amazed myself by crying thru half the song and being hugged by my daughter.  We got LOUD!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited August 2010

    Wow! That sounds awesome....I have tears in my eyes just reading about it!

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  • navygirl
    navygirl Member Posts: 886
    edited August 2010

    Dotti...what an amazing time you must have had! That song came out after I had lost my best friend to bc, but before I was diagnosed. It was amazing how different my perspective was going from a friend of someone w/bc to having the bc. I was amazed how she could articulate the experience like that. Truly a wordsmith if you ask me...I think I may have to go play it now :)

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2010

    Thanks for sharing your experience, Dotti. I love Melissa E, both for her music and for her gutsy approach to difficult situations. That song, I Run For Life, was released on the same day (I think it was 10/5/05) that I got word from my surgeon that my lumpectomy path showed clean margins and I could move on to rads. I bought the album on my way home from the hospital and listened when I got home. Although I hadn't shed even one tear from the day I was diagnosed in April, that song triggered the outpouring of all the pent up fear and anxiety and I cried like I never had before in my life. Powerful stuff, I'd say.

    It's also nice that you got to share that experience with your daughter.

    ~Marin

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited August 2010

    Hey, Girl, haven't seen you around!  yeah, it was a good experience to go with dd.  And, yes, I feel her music is full of strength.  I gain strength from it, too.

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited August 2010

    Dotti, that must have been wonderful. Last year a dance studio in Hickory created a dance to that music and performed it at the 'Through Healing Eyes' gala and also at the local Race for the Cure. I wish I had a copy of that dance to watch. I tear up every time I think about that song and those wonderful young people doing their interpretive dance.

    Sheila

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  • Dejaboo
    Dejaboo Member Posts: 2,916
    edited August 2010

    That sounds like a Very Moving & Awesome experience!

    Im glad you got to share it with your daughter.

    I just went & Listened to the song on Youtube.

    I also love this Song.  I remember reading the story- well I dont remember well...but she was just finishing treatment or had & was still very tired. At about 4:37 into this song when she rolled her eyes back She was thinking How am I going to make it through the song.

    But she did & So well!

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited August 2010

    I have that youtube Piece of My Heart (tribute to Janis Jopline) when she was bald and she really belted it out, like Jopin, on my favorite list.  I turn to it when I am low.  Which, happily, is not so often, but it does give me a real boost.

    I took the rolling eyes as "a woman can be tough".  As she and all chemo takers ARE.  Yes, I did read that she wasn't sure she could make it thru the song due to being tired, but boy did she dot it!

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