Win Tickets ($50): An Evening w/ Vanessa Carlton @ Aladdin Theater | Pop, Rock, Singer Songwriter
We are giving away a pair of tickets to An Evening w/ Vanessa Carlton @ Aladdin Theater on April 3. To win, comment below on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed March 27.
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From our sponsors:
An Evening with Vanessa Carlton
April 3, 2023
Doors 8PM, Show 9PM | $25 | All Ages
More info: event.etix.com
Aladdin Theater
3017 SE Milwaukie Ave, Portland, OR 97202
“Always building up, falling apart. Love is an art,” sings Vanessa Carlton on the title track of her sixth album, Love Is An Art. Like the record itself, the song is a meditation on the eternal seesaw that is human connection: the push, the pull, the balance, the bottoming out. It’s that constantly evolving nature of love, expectations and compassion that Carlton analyzes from all angles on Love Is An Art, from romantic, to parental, to the friends that hold us up and the leaders that repeatedly let us down. And on tracks like the album’s opener, “I Can’t Stay the Same,” that also includes the relationship with the person staring back at us in the mirror, each and every morning.
“Love is the energy you put out into the world,” says the Nashville-based Carlton, who was inspired in part by the 1956 book The Art of Loving by philosopher Erich Fromm, and by stories and struggles both in her interior world and the world around her. “And it can be so incredibly messy at times.”
Produced by Dave Fridmann (MGMT, Flaming Lips), Love Is An Art finds Carlton reckoning with toxic relationships (the confessional “Miner’s Canary”), eternal partnership (“Companion Star”) and the children who fill the world with love and grace while politicians fill their pockets (the passionate “Die, Dinosaur,” written after the shootings in Parkland, Florida). And true to Carlton’s skill as both a lyricist and an instrumentalist, the arrangements on Love Is An Art tell these tales as vibrantly as the words themselves: piano parts that speak of rage and tenderness, synths that burst and glow like dawn.
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I would walk a thousand miles to see this…that evening!
Sounds like a beautiful evening!
I would love to see Vanessa at the Aladdin!
Oh, this definitely wouldn’t be just an ordinary day if I won tickets.
This sounds like fun!
What a fun night out!
There are surprisingly not a ton of artists that are primarily pianists. I really appreciate this instrument and would love to see a show focused on this!
This would be an awesome show to attend!
I would love to see this show. I love the Aladdin.
I’d love to go to Vanessa Carlton!
Would love to see her live!
What good songwriting. And what a great intimate space to see her.
Thanks.
I remember how much I loved her music way back when.
Vanessa Carlton was the soundtrack to my adolescence… would love to see her as an adult!
This event sounds lovely and peaceful. I’d like to be considered for I’d take my husband to this. We need a date night for sure and with the way the music sounds would definitely support that.
Vanessa was my idol growing up!!
I would love to go!!
This would be such a fun night!
Making my way downtown.. to the Aladdin… to see Vanessa Carlton?! Heck yes! This would be amazing
Sounds great, pick me!
This is going to be so awesome!
Thousand Miles, I mean come on! 🙂
A night to remember!