Tel Aviv, Israel, 4 Aug 2010

[Bud]

Diana Krall Latest to Announce Concert in Israel this Summer

Canadian singer Dana Krall is the latest in a long line of artists who have announced that they will be giving concerts in Israel this summer. She will be performing at the Ra’anana Amphitheater in the Tel Aviv suburb of Raanana on August 4, just a week after Seal will perform at the venue.

http://www.touristisrael.com/diana-kral ... aviv/1087/

[johnfoyle]

http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=183008

Mrs. Costello flies in
By DAVID BRINN

07/30/2010 15:35

(extract)

Can you imagine the kind of dinner conversations that Diana Krall and her husband Elvis Costello must have been having the last couple months? “You know, Di, there are those who consider Israel to be an apartheid state for the way in which they’ve for years systematically discriminated against the Palestinians. Could you pass the tandoori chicken this way, luv?” “Oh Elvis, how many times can you keep bringing this up? I’m just going to play a concert there, it’s been booked for months.And you know, thanks so much for changing your mind midstream and canceling your shows there. I’m probably going to have to hide out in my hotel room, guilty by association. Here’s your damn tandoori.”

“Don’t be cross, luv,” coos Costello, breaking into his version of “She” as the couple’s twin sons, Dexter and Frank, clap along. Krall rolls her eyes as she takes a bite and thinks: “I knew I should have married John Lydon.”

She’ll be arriving in Israel a day after performing in Beirut, another reason why she, unlike other family members, may not be too enthusiastic about spouting any political viewpoints. Better to say it with music.

[scielle]

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[mapache61]

Thanks johnfoyle. The imagined DK-EC convo is kinda funny. Not hilarious. But I laughed. And I'm glad to see she played the Tel Aviv date.

[Bud]

http://www.jpost.com/home/article.aspx?id=183985

Krall knew very well where she was, evident in the fact she did not make any mention – as she often does in her concerts – to her husband Costello.

[Coda]

Overall, I thought the review was good. However, I don't understand the reviewer's criticism that Diana didn't acknowledge enough that she was playing in Israel. The reviewer says that, during the concert, Diana quotes "Hava Negila" and, at the end of the concert, she says "Thank you, Tel Aviv." But unless she said "Hello, Israel" as she stepped onstage, the other stuff didn't count?