Suzanne VegaFriday, i went to a free show at j&r music world to see the free show... the show started with Javier and then there were screaming girls for JHoliday and after much sound adjustment, i mean way way way too much sound adjustment.... Suzanne Vega took the stage in City Hall Park
Marlena on the Wall
Zephyr & i
Ludlow street
New york is a woman
Pornographer´s dream
Frank & ava
Angel´s doorway
From her newest cd Beauty and Crimes - a classic Suzanne Vega cd
she added
Left of Center
Gypsy
Blood makes noise
caramel
in liverpool
ofcourse Suzanne ended the show with LUKA and a dna remix version of Toms Diner
After the show, Suzanne was signing her cd in J&R and there are two things that i wanted to do....Get a Luka single signed but i didnt have it with me and secondly, express to Suzanne that Luka played a role in the life of all of us foster care, child abuse workers who were under appreciated and under valued. When Luka hit the airwave, some of our work was legitmatized or validated by hearing Luka.... we knew someone understood what the life of an abuse child may be like...
So i stood on line, had to explain that I wanted to express gratitude and owned all the Suzanne Vega cds... i would not purchase another and would ask for nothing to be signed... I just wanted to express my thanks..
I stood on line getting nervous.... what would i say or how would i say it...
when my time came...
I said... "suzanne, i am sharon goldberg, i reached out to shake her hand...and i have been a long time fan and I love the new cd" but that is not why i am here..For years i have wanted to thank you for Luka... I am sure that you get lots of feedback about the song but i want to tell you, that Now i train caseworkers in abuse and neglect but i worked for 20 years with abused and neglected children.. Until Luka, we didnt feel very valued. Hearing Luka, allowed us to feel someone understood and that our work was validated. I wanted to thank you for that for many years. I started to tell Suzanne that i teach now and use her lyrics...i kept saying that Luka validated, legitimized the work i have done... then i was told to move on... so mid sentance... i stopped and said... i have to go.. thank you..
the staff told me that my bag was open so i stopped.... Suzanne asked for me to come back to the table and she said... "wait.... i want to shake her hand".... i looked her in the eye and held my hand out... Suzanne had a solid firm hand shake..
I walked out of J&R a little shaken and i wanted to cry....i could feel the tears well up but they would not come.... I crossed the street and walked up to the brooklyn bridge and walked over the bridge and threw downtown brooklyn
