Top Female Performer You've Seen Live

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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    Bjork was awesome.
    Erika Wennerstrom from the Heartless Bastards is awesome as well.
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  • Wobbie
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    uh, yeah....yeah, there is. [-X
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  • Final Bow
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    Melisse Etheridge was outstanding at the beginning of her career.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,665
    I never thought about it before, but I just realized, to my surprise, that I've never seen a female performer in concert by choice. I guess I must have seen a few at festivals, but can't remember. And I saw Tegan and Sara open for a band once, and I hated them a lot.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    paulonious wrote: »
    Juliette Lewis, belive it or not, is as rock n roll as it gets. Dirty, sweaty, sexy rock n roll. Saw her twice for two different tours...blew me away both times.

    Melissa Auf der Maur is also awesome.
    Milla Jovovich falls into that category too. Nice work with Puscifer.

    And KD Lang's voice...holy shit, with its purity.
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,542
    imalive wrote: »
    Tim Simmons wrote: »
    Aint nothing wrong with Beyonce.

    uh, yeah....yeah, there is. [-X

    No way dude. Shes a superstar. She put out one of the best albums of 2013 (and 14 seeing as it came out 2 weeks before the previous year ended).

    Some of the most progressive soul/r&b out there. Plus a killer voice.



  • EdLaw
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    Tori Amos.
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  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,444
    I'd LOVE to see PJ Harvey and Patti Smith perform one day. Cannot really think of any female artist that I have seen live right now. Odd.
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    g under p wrote: »
    oftenreading wrote: »
    Annie Lennox

    I had the biggest crush on her way back in the day....never seen her live though.
    :(
    I saw her once in Vancouver, and looking through a tour list online it seems it must have been 1986. Eurythmics, so just her and Dave Stewart. My memory is she was great but Stewart wasn't much of a performer.
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  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    edited January 2015
    The pretenders
    Stevie nicks
    Sheryl crow ( not a huge fan album wise, but she puts on a great live show).
    The heartless bastards (Erika is great)
    The cranberries
    Dead weather
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    edited January 2015
    Ok I started this thread and I said there's more. Well, right after I said that I had this performer whom I saw and met her backstage at the 9:30 Club in DC 2004. However, for the life of me I couldn't remember her name, all I could remember was her raspy sounding for and her guitar playing. Hell I don't even remember how her name came back to me but I know somewhere on Other Music I posted about her a long time ago.

    Anyway, I went though my postings I knew and found where I posted in a Beth Hart thread. I must have been pretty buzzed to not recall her name. She was a guest of my friend Micheal Franti & Spearhead and she played some serious heartfelt songs...like this one "Over You"

    http://youtu.be/msDyYn81HxY

    Here's another one "I'll Take Care Of You"

    http://youtu.be/aLR_bSzPTiY

    She's a serious talent, I'm going to get several if not all of her CDs.

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  • Suziemay
    Suziemay Posts: 11,168
    edited January 2015
    @g under p‌, Beth Hart is fantastic. I first came across her when I listened to her collaboration with Slash, Mother Maria (as an aside, that entire Slash album is pretty awesome): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9yuDEnMhhk

    So as one does, I looked her up and went to see her when she came to my city. Stunning.

    This performance of I'd Rather Go Blind at the 2012 Kennedy Center Honors for Buddy Guy was pretty amazing too, I think I teared up in front of my TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fALdOkf_eCM

    To answer your original question, I'm actually not much into female voices, but my favourite shows have been:
    - Lady Gaga
    - Alicia Keys
    - Patti Smith
    - Brandi Carlile
    - The Skins (female singer): I saw them at a CBGB festival thing earlier this year, before Billy Idol and Walking Papers, and they totally kicked ass! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn2tT8Z5cno
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    Björk - OUTSTANDING!

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    Alanis Morisette
    The Cardigans (Nina Persson)
    The cranberries (Dolores)






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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,179
    edited January 2015
    Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!) does she count?
    Liela Moss (The Duke Spirit)
    Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries)
    Alison Mosshart (The Kills/Dead Weather)
    Katie White (The Ting Tings)
    Alexis Krauss (Sleigh Bells)
    Charlotte Cooper (The Subways)
    Haim
    Melissa Auf der Maur
    Alicia Keys (saw at Live 8)
    Janelle Monae (saw at Made in America Festival)
    and of course heavy metal band Kittie \m/
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  • Yarden
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    Kate Bush
    Kim Deal
    Joan Armatrading
    Laura Marling
  • weddingparade
    weddingparade Posts: 1,179
    to add
    Bonnie Raitt
    Joan Osborne
    Natalie MacMaster
    Mary Chapin
    Dixie Chicks...every one of them
    Joss Stone
  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
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    edited January 2015
    I was at the VH1 Rock Honours in Las Vegas where Gretchen Wilson played Barracuda with Alice in Chains. It was freaking awesome. If you haven't seen this video... you need to:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqQkECIn738

    They performed it as a tribute to Heart which came on afterwards and played 4 songs (these gals are the queens of female rockers!).
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    June Carter Cash. Fantastic!

    Crystal Gayle. What a voice!

    Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club). Terrific bass player, good singer.

    The Go Go's. Early on, before these ladies were well known, they were more punk than pop and they kicked ass. What a group!

    Debora Iyall (Romeo Void). Excellent singer, cool stage presence.

    June Tyson (dancer/singer in Sun Ra's Arkestra). A lovely lady and fantastic dancer.

    Sharon Isben. Superb guitarist.

    Lydia Pence (Cold Blood). Nothing cold about this hot singer.

    Jeannie Hoffman. (pianist/singer for the Jeannie Hoffman Trio. Back in the early 70's, a buddy and I used to go almost every week to see the Jeannie Hoffmann trio play in this little club on Van Ness in San Francisco. During regular hours, the band played mostly covers and Hoffman's voice and piano playing were superb. We got to know the band and bar keep well enough to stick around after hours and that's when things really got delicious- the band would jam and improvise like crazy. That was so cool!
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    brianlux wrote: »
    June Carter Cash. Fantastic!

    Crystal Gayle. What a voice!

    Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club). Terrific bass player, good singer.

    The Go Go's. Early on, before these ladies were well known, they were more punk than pop and they kicked ass. What a group!

    Debora Iyall (Romeo Void). Excellent singer, cool stage presence.

    June Tyson (dancer/singer in Sun Ra's Arkestra). A lovely lady and fantastic dancer.

    Sharon Isben. Superb guitarist.

    Lydia Pence (Cold Blood). Nothing cold about this hot singer.

    Jeannie Hoffman. (pianist/singer for the Jeannie Hoffman Trio. Back in the early 70's, a buddy and I used to go almost every week to see the Jeannie Hoffmann trio play in this little club on Van Ness in San Francisco. During regular hours, the band played mostly covers and Hoffman's voice and piano playing were superb. We got to know the band and bar keep well enough to stick around after hours and that's when things really got delicious- the band would jam and improvise like crazy. That was so cool!

    One of my biggest musical regrets is not going to see Talking Heads when they were still around.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    oftenreading wrote: »
    brianlux wrote: »
    June Carter Cash. Fantastic!

    Crystal Gayle. What a voice!

    Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club). Terrific bass player, good singer.

    The Go Go's. Early on, before these ladies were well known, they were more punk than pop and they kicked ass. What a group!

    Debora Iyall (Romeo Void). Excellent singer, cool stage presence.

    June Tyson (dancer/singer in Sun Ra's Arkestra). A lovely lady and fantastic dancer.

    Sharon Isben. Superb guitarist.

    Lydia Pence (Cold Blood). Nothing cold about this hot singer.

    Jeannie Hoffman. (pianist/singer for the Jeannie Hoffman Trio. Back in the early 70's, a buddy and I used to go almost every week to see the Jeannie Hoffmann trio play in this little club on Van Ness in San Francisco. During regular hours, the band played mostly covers and Hoffman's voice and piano playing were superb. We got to know the band and bar keep well enough to stick around after hours and that's when things really got delicious- the band would jam and improvise like crazy. That was so cool!

    One of my biggest musical regrets is not going to see Talking Heads when they were still around.

    I was lucky to see them on the Speaking in Tongues Tour at the Hampton Coliseum Hampton VA with half of the venue closed off. Then went to Denny's late for work as a waiter. Then later in the morning on my graveyard shift guess who sits in my section to wait on him? Yeah David Byrne, he wine and a salad. He didn't believe me that I was at the show till I opened my uniform to show him my yellow no sleeve tour shirt. He laughed then I told him he owed me an autograph, he then preceded to give me one. That made my night along with a great great intimate show, never knew that would be their last tour.

    Peace

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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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