Laura Nyro Live at the Seattle Opera House April 10 1971

This is an audience recording made so many years ago at what was then called the Seattle Center Opera House (now the renovated McCaw Hall). I had saved up what I could to buy a used Uher 4000 reel to reel recorder and an AKG mic just for this concert, and I was lucky no one threw me out of the venue, as it was pretty obvious the bulky tape equipment I had with me (not at all like the small i-phones we have today!). Laura’s performance this concert is absolutely beautiful, with musicality, warmth, tenderness.