If I’m wearing guitar Bow Tie o’ the Day, I’m headed to a concert. I don’t wear it to all concerts I attend, but I don’t wear it to any other kind of event. Saturday evening we hied away to Park City in a twinkling of an eye for dinner at GRAPPA, and then AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH SHAWN COLVIN, at The Egyptian Theater.
GRAPPA had a cozy ski lodge vibe. The bigly windows provided a stupendous view of the snowy mountains. I ordered the horseradish encrusted salmon, just to see what the heck that would turn out to look like and taste like. (Suzanne had thought about ordering it too.) It was a delicious choice. Suzanne had the scallops puttanesca, which was my second choice to order. We spent the whole meal oohing and awing over our own meals, then wishing we had ordered what each other was having. Could we have shared each other’s entrees? Yes. But we were too selfish with our own dinners for that.
Our dinner began with calamari, and ended with a dessert I chose just because I couldn’t pronounce the name: zabaglione. It was bruleed custard with fruit, topped with slivered candied almonds. Suzanne had citrus polenta cake, also with custard and berries. We used to split one dessert. Now that we are old and there’s no possible way we could ever get back our girlish figures again, we each get our own dessert.
I wore my wintry cape for the happenings, and at least three people at GRAPPA drooled and told me how wonderful it was. Well heck, I knew that. But it was a sorta snooty Park City restaurant, so it surprised me that my cape was thoroughly appreciated. It is one of a kind, and I know the cape maker personally. Lucky me.
At the end of our meal, I was overtaken with tired, droopy eyes. I needed to nap, and we had an hour before the concert started. I told Suzanne I needed to sack-out in the car for a few minutes. I fully expected her to go off to DOLLY’S bookstore while I rested my weary eyelids, but she stayed with me in the car. She passed my snooze time by playing games on her phone, as is evidenced in one of these photos. (Another photo here also shows Suzanne playing games on her phone in the theater while we waited for the concert to begin.)
And then finally, inside The Egyptian Theater, Shawn Colvin came onto the stage with her guitar. Just Shawn Colvin and her guitar for the entire show– except for Shawn Colvin and her keyboard for the encore. I have been enamored with her music for thirty years. She’s an exceptional songwriter, and she plucks the guitar strings masterfully. In fact, I swear I could feel Bow Tie’s guitar strings vibrating right along with Shawn Colvin’s.
