billy billie bill

 

And my birthday celebration just keeps going!

Late last week, Tybee Post Theater rewarded me for being "a loyal follower", gifting me two free tickets to a concert. 

Woot woot!!!

That's 58 dollars of free entertainment... and I could bring a friend! 

Happy bday67!!!

Fortunately, mi amiga Sandy was glad to go with me - hooray!!!

Happy bday 57 to her!!!

Did it matter that neither of us knew Jacob Khalil, the pianist?

Nope, not one bit!

We both love that he was to play music "from Billy Joel to Billie Eilish" 'cause we both know many of their songs!

And when he started off with "Just The Way You Are", we were thrilled!

I was even more elated when he followed that with "Vienna"!!!

The only time I ever hear that is when I sing it at karaoke, and it's one of my favorite Billy Joel tunes - even if it was just the B-side to that first song tonight.

(smile!)

The pianist followed that with another I knew by heart: "Lovely Day", by Bill Withers, and i swear he was looking at me, in F-18, the whole time.

That's because I'd been singing along with everything so far!!!

He switched it up with two from Elton John.

"Rocket Man" had me singing and dancing in my seat!

 

And "Your Song" - well he left me in tears with that one.

Sam Johnson would either sing that to me or request that I sing it at karaoke.

I knew Jacob Khalil was looking at me then, as he wiped away tears, too, as he took a few moments after the end.

Time to bounce back with a Beatles tune about looking for 'Mary Jane'!

Yes, that got the good times vibe back in the house!

"I Won't (Give Up)" was his very own song and helped slide the musical time scale into this century.

Two more from so-called 'divas' - "Birds Of A Feather" from Billie Eilish, then "Levitating" from Dua Lipa" kept it solidly there until the break. 

Magnificent!!!

They returned to the stage with "Valerie", a song that I thought was much older than it turned out to be. 

Only from 2006? Really???

Then we got the debut song from Billie Eilish tune, as well as a the debut song from Britney Spears - very nicely done with his fresh takes!

Time for another one of his own tunes, "Rest Of My Life", with us all singing along for the chorus - loved that!

And he finished up with a sing-along of "Piano Man", flashing us right back to the 1970's where the concert music began - perfect!!!

Kudos to Ethan Marsh on bass and Robert Saunders on drums!

(smile!) 

As we told the piano man afterward, we had loved his refashioning of the songs, the way he made them sound new yet still familiar.

He loved that!

We kept talking about the music all the way home and while we ate.

She and I stopped off at Carey Hilliard's on Skidaway to cap off our evening with dinner.

We took her car, with me driving there and back, as it has air conditioning.

That's because we had a triple-digit high today... and that was without including the +15 for the heat index.

I'm glad that weather nonsense didn't keep us from an evening out!

What a marvelous cool treat on this hot summer night!

(smile!)