Stinna @ Lakeside 26/10/21
Its coming on fall most places. For many people, that includes pulling out a favorite warm sweater. You know the kind I mean.. Warm.. Soft…. Almost alive , as if it were embracing you when you slip your arms in. I did the musical equivalent of that today at Stinna's 11 AM show. Her voice had that warm, caressing quality I remembered from the last time I hear this wonderful singer share her amazing talents with my fellow SL residents. This amazing hour of "comfort" songs opened with "Dizzy", the Tommy Roe classic from back when the internet was just some dust on a chalkboard (yeah.. Chalk…. THAT long ago). She followed this up with the Halloween season staple "Ghost Busters", which of course got the crowd moving.
Continuing her display of her mastery of "old people" music, she delivered a spot on "I'm A Believer" from everyone's favorite TV band, the Monkees, and breathlessly launched into a soulful rendition of Stings "Fields of Gold". Which really isn't "old people" music. Her next song, "Take It Easy", was definitely a call to my misspent youth. Stinna has this way of wrapping her voice around you and tugging you along with her to wherever the lyrics are headed. I could see myself back in Winslow, Arizona, waiting on Stinna to give me a lift (hey, a fella can dream). Proving she's adept at many eras of music we rounded the bend with Emma Burton's beautiful "What Took You So Long" which is exactly what you'll be asking yourself when catch your first Stinna show.
Her next song, is one of my all time favorites, Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street", I even pulled out my sax for the first since I got fired, and joined in from the back of the dance floor. Oh, did I mention Stinna's band? Of course not, I can see what I've written so far. Well, she did have a band, and what a band, Reggie Boucher on bass, Camporum on lead guitar and Sarrah Nitely providing back up vocals. They had a session drummer, who's name I didn't catch. It was really fun to join in, from the floor, for the sax solo. After I packed my sax away, Stinna and the band continued on with Frankie Valli's "Grease" and ABBA's "Does Your Mother Know". About this time I thought we were going to have end the show early as a great spider creature landed. You'd think it wouldn't be a problem for werewolf like me, and it wasn't, but Stinna clearly doesn't like spiders. Halloween is such a fun season in SL. As it turns out, all was well, as this spider was the famous Lexus Melodie, who was up next.
The balance of the hour was spent, in my warm, comfy, caressing, vocal sweater enjoying Earth, Wind, and Fire's "21st of September", Elton John's "Are You Ready For Love", the Mamas and The Papas' fall classic "All The Leaves Are Brown" and finishing up with a perfect "Pretty Woman", which certainly describes Stinna, inside and out.
Stinna´s velvet voice has been described as magically smooth and soul soothing. She mesmerizes her audience with versatile sets that are a variety of melodic, upbeat and playful tunes.
This wonderful hour passed at the incredible Lakeside venue. Owned, built and operated by the energetic Sarrah Nitely, Lakeside is modeled after a RL venue in Northern California. Sarrah's goal is to give visitors as close to a RL concert experience as she can. In order to this, she invests heavily in her stage, making custom setups for her regular singers and working to staff bands. In addition to the stage Stinna used today, Sarrah has a sim next door with a lake, waterpark and another stage, where they have one off shows, usually during the summer. Show or not, make a point to visit the amazing concert venue.
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