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Originally Posted by milomom
JBJ @ a gala for the William J. Clinton Foundation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFtABHJS-QM
This gala was held at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC. I don't know what other songs Jon did, but Eric Clapton also played, and there's a YT video of Hoochie Coochie Man. I'm not the MOST religious person around, but somehow that just feels a little out of place.  |
St. John the Divine is a special sort of place. Kermit the Frog sang there when Jim Henson died for example. It's the only cathedral in the US of it's size that has been completely hand built stone by stone. It's incomplete because work was stopped on it in the 60's. They found themselves in a part of town where people were starving and they felt guilty trying to finish the building with all the hunger around them. By the 80's they were training the people in the neighborhood to have stonecutting skills and they paid them to help finish the building. They were close to finishing about 5 years ago when a fire took out an entire wing.
More to the point - they hold all sorts of events there - even non-religious events to raise money and awareness of their building and the neighborhood. THEY wouldn't consider a rock concert out of place at all.
One of the best things that happened to that neighborhood was Bill Clinton. After leaving the Presidency he located his office in Harlem (which is where this cathedral is). The entire neighborhood has come a long way since then - including the real estate values.