Beach Boys 2018

Last November I was privileged to attend my first-ever Beach Boys concert at Kovolchick Center at IUP.  It was amazing, and I walked on air for days afterwards.  They are my all-time favorite group!  So many great songs and many more great memories!  Ahhhhh the 60’s! 

But this summer I was checking my work emails and saw the ‘coming soon’ ads for the Palace Theatre in Greensburg – The Beach Boys Christmas concert, right in my own front yard!  Couldn’t get much better than that!  So I emailed my friend Kelli at the Theatre and she ‘hooked me up’ with the box office manager to get the best seat available!  Front row, balcony! 

The Beach Boys were hype all by themselves but to add the Christmas music in was wildly exciting for me!  The very first LP (record) I purchased when I got my first job was the Beach Boys Christmas!  I still have it, along with the newer-purchased CD by the same name.  So my long-awaited concert was last Tuesday night, and it certainly didn’t disappoint!  The set was so fun, with trees of different sizes as a backdrop.  They changed colors to suit the mood!  The first half of the concert was the traditional sun and surf songs with a Christmas song from Mike Love’s new CD thrown in. 

After the intermission they played an entire set of their Christmas hits, plus a few new ones.  And even though I LOVE the Christmas ones, when they played ‘Wouldn’t it be Nice’ I was totally engaged!  I LOVE that song. I recorded it on my phone but somehow can’t get it to transfer to my website.  You’ll just have to close your eyes and imagine it.  Sing along, now:   Wouldn’t it be nice if we were older, then we wouldn’t have to wait so long.  And wouldn’t it be nice to live together, in the kind of world where we belong….    Oh, ya!  The concert was the first holiday event of the season for me, and what a terrific way to start out.  And when we had ‘audience participation’ with our flashlight app on our cell phones, it was like a bunch of stars shining in the balcony. 

Going to concerts has never been a thing for me, but the Beach Boys pull me out of my well-constructed box.  So I’m thinking if these guys come back our way again, I just might be tempted to go again.  Can’t get much better than that!