musical holidays

[desh]

Why is everyone's timing so bad? They Might Be Giants played at the TLA on Sukkot, Natalie MacMaster is playing at Penn on Pesach, and I just found out that Eileen Ivers is playing at Concerts Under the Stars on the first night of Shavuot! Dammit! Eileen is my absolutely favorite musical act to see live (yes, more than TMBG and more than Pearl Jam), and the Upper Merion park is probably my favorite place to see concerts.

If anyone can help me find a way to justify within my Jewish practices a way to see that concert, please let me know...Benj? Please?

Comments

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

For Shavuot:

It is designed to celebrate the first harvest.
We are no longer an agrarian society.
In fact, we aren't even a production society anymore.
These days, we're a service and entertainment society.
So legitimately, instead of celebrating harvest, one should celebrate service and/or entertainment.
Therefore, going to a concert is a good plan.
(Especially since it's outside.)

You're kind of on your own for Pesach, though.

[desh]

Yeah, Pesach I gave up on. Even if I could justify it, I gotta go to seders.

Thanks! I'll roll this around my mind for awhile.

[conana.livejournal.com]

Very clever. I actually think that, given how easy it is for us to ignore agricultural events and constraints these days, it is even more important to celebrate these holidays. (Unless the latest HDTV spec has some Direct Rationing Mechanism that I haven't heard of.) But being outside for Shavuot makes lots of sense.