Streisand Live

 

For our 44th anniversary, on the 23rd of August, we drove the hour and a half down to Toronto to go to the Barbara Streisand concert at the Air Canada Center. We checked into the Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Front Street, had dinner and then on to the concert. I'll talk more about the Royal York later as it was a whole experience on its own.

 

We walked about a block from the hotel to enter the concert venue and this was how we were greeted on a beautiful 75 degree evening.

 



We wound our way into the place with the other 19,800 folks who were Streisand fans just like us and this was the view of the stage from our seats. This was the last of her performances of 2016 as well as this tour and it celebrated her hits over the course of six decades entitled:

“Barbara – The Music ... The Mem’ries ... The Magic!”

After the concert starts you cannot take pictures so the one below is one of the official ones.
(Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage for BSB)

She then proceeded to give us everything this phenomenal performer had to offer ... and it was pure perfection. Over the course of almost three hours, in two sets, she gave us 21 of her most popular songs as well as a really neat dialog about politics and ecological issues. She's a solid Democrat and has performed for several Democratic presidents, so for this audience as well as us it was wonderful.

As we walked back to the hotel this was the scene in Toronto. On the right is the Royal York Hotel and on the left as you walk down Front Street is Union Station; just behind it was the concert. The CN tower was a brilliant topping for the whole city scene; an evening we will never forget!