Laurie Anderson in concert at Luminato Festival 2013.

A rare Toronto appearance of experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson presented by Luminato Festival, Toronto’s international arts festival.
Join us June 7-23, 2019.
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[@EnosEverything]

I see from the date of this performance that it was only 4 months before Laurie lost her husband Lou Reed.... I hope and pray that Laurie is in fine health herself now and is finding new light in the world... You are not a national treasure Laurie but a treasure to the entire world.

[@markmower6507]

World Treasure!!!

[@Crashman2]

Laurie Anderson Rules. Period.

[@wrencritter]

Another save of my artistic soul. When I feel too wiped out to think/create/go on...on goes Laurie. For me, it's been more than 30 years and this always works. On goes Laurie and I'm flowing out again--Supernova Thanks, Laurie! Yeah.

[@RobertKeeleyTV]

What an amazing artist. Thankful I got to experience her music.

[@aroundart]

Laurie and Ai Weiwei raging against the machine, this is high art. Awesome.

[@kelvinwilson9217]

Always a great experience to see Laurie Anderson live. Just amazing.

[@bozotro]

Just found this today, on her birthday. Great quality. I was at this concert.

[@matrixmash9907]

I'm so sorry for your loss that you were at this concert. My prayers go with you. #prayforjesus

[@karlshallowhorn1332]

I was at this show. Lou Reed and Laurie did an encore together. What a memorable moment.

[@1971bdott]

Wow you’re so lucky to have seen this as you know Lou died only a few months later. I have a friend that saw lou reed last live performance in England,he played a full set.2+ hours. I am always so jealous but it’s great when people like yourself share your experience I get to live vicariously through all the stories and videos

[@metomp67]

From her website: "Greetings to the Motherland” On June 16, 2013 at the Luminato Festival Ai Weiwei will skype in from Beijing and join Laurie for a dual rant about China and the United States. Joining them onstage for this historic exchange will be renowned musicians Greg Saunier (drums) , Eyvind Kang (viola, keyboards), and Doug Wieselman (saxophone). Says Laurie: “Writing songs with Ai Weiwei has been a blast. Since both of us share a fascination with our giant countries and the way they use power, images, public relations, lies, money, war and words we decided to do a kind of duet/rant about China and the United States. It’s been really exciting to write in this context of the double superpowers. Ai Weiwei will also be describing his time in detention- a really hair raising personal story.”

[@claudiodevoto]

Unforgetable performance......Laurie and Ai Wei Wei..... excellent...!!!!

[@MK-jh6cq]

ich hatte tränen in den augen als sie bei einem auftritt mit old bull lee getanzt hat.das war so herzlich mit viel Emotionen,und liebe sie seit:oh superman....schon lange her,die liebe wird immer grösser.

[@gabrielledemey8714]

Laurie breaths her fine art all over us so we may join her in consciousness and in our actions!

[@OldEarthWisdom]

This was GREAT!. Love it! Thank You!

[@industriadeplasticos]

its so fucking good. totally perfect.

[@1971bdott]

This is Awesome thanks for uploading

[@1984vinyl]

I keep on wondering...Laurie....THANK YOU!

[@hoootter]

She's a real Queen of beauty and experimentals) I love her when I was a schoolboy, and now even more!

[@lahipoteticabanda8602]

gracias un abrazo desde el peru!

[@FeelinCLO2]

Bravo Bravo !! Thank you....

[@markmower6507]

I am A Huge Laurie Anderson Fan! I can't believe that I am just now discovering this. I 🤔 thought that I had seen Everything she Ever Did. Even that Obscure Stuff from Germany... Hahahahahahahaha 😂!!!

[@karmineka]

She... i really love the stars ... because we cant hurt them....we cant blow them off... we cant turn them off...

[@DidierLaurent-dr9iu]

There IS a shallow gleaming shady kind of light,this is Call Hope .

[@ofop1]

this amazing women is a soothsayer

[@BlackThyme]

this is great, my second intro to Laurie Anderson, the first was a few minutes ago driving in my car home from work with o superman. pity about the equipment i'm using doesn't bring up the softness of mic before dialup

[@leeMartin33]

Beat Poet stuff!! Love it

[@profjbamberg]

BRAAAAAVOOOOO!!!...

[@juninhozeff8514]

Maravilhosa.

[@ajhoncantara]

Outstanding as always. Laurie Anderson is the Alpha and the Omega. "What war is this?" Thank you for the bottom of my soul for posting this.

[@EnosEverything]

+ajhoncantara FROM ...not for... I'm just trying to help you with your English as I realise it's not your first language... Using FOR in the sentence you typed just buggers up the meaning of what you are implying... Good luck.... And also, this is a fantastic concert - thankyou for the upload.

[@ajhoncantara]

Ha! I suppose I was so mesmerized by the performance I didn't notice the typo while writing my comment. English is my first language, so there's nothing wrong there; it's my vision that is flawed.

[@ajhoncantara]

And I just posted my comment above yours instead of below. DOH! I hate using my iPad on website comment sections; too many snags.

[@EnosEverything]

+ajhoncantara Great to hear back from you... You have excellent taste in music if this brilliant lady is any indication... Do you have her album THE UGLY ONE WITH THE JEWELS ???....I love that album but quite honestly all her albums are extraordinary - I introduced a very dear old friend ( who has since passed away ) to STRANGE ANGELS years ago and I couldn't stop the bugger from continuously playing it...ha ha. I just wish she'd come to Australia.

[@PFedun]

+EnosEverything I've been following her since Big Science was released and have all but Life on a String. The Ugly One With The Jewels is fantastic. I've been fortunate to have seen her four times. The last performance I attended was "Delusion" while I was working in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics. It was a cathartic experience and by the end I was so overwhelmed I wept. Laurie is my philosophical guru and I'm long, long, long overdue for another concert. I've also been faithfully following Eno since his Roxy Music days. He is someone I would beg, borrow and steal to see in performance. It would appear we share a similar taste in music and it's a pleasure communicating with you. Cheers!

[@EduardoCachucho]

Lets hear it for the whistleblowers yes! 15:40

[@Claudestar1]

Great! Thank you!

[@damianwebzyx6613]

Most underrated Artist of the Century … maybe because it’s not microwave ready for consumption … Anyone remembers Tuxedo Moon … HEROES OF THE PAST .. but not really heard … Heartbreaking 😢 So much wisdom, so much Engagement , but Society didn’t react in an appropriate way .. what a Artist .. what a pity, we are so numb ….. Sorry about my mood … 🫣

[@GregDeocampoogle]

She's a giant.

[@MJK1965]

Phenomenal

[@SailaV1]

Nobody but nobody like her!

[@dougstanton9816]

In the first 30 seconds of playing I was like dam that touches you.

[@emilygibbs8812]

I really love her violin 🎻 and the way she wears her shirt low.I'm jealous that she knows Peter Gabriel, but that's what I get.🦂💚📧

[@ferlor]

Que genia

[@checkerphil]

What?! Is that Greg Saunier from Deerhoof on the drums? Laurie knows to pick the wildest people!

[@britekite]

serious music

[@ASHMUSICBOX]

COOLLaurie Anderson

[@DjWellDressedMan]

saw it live and FREE

[@dragicapetrovic9470]

so charismatic ~

[@homepowerpro]

Ai Weiwei should be mentioned in the title and description.

[@elena16350]

Why, what has he done except make a lot of trouble for people, he hasn’t any backing in his native country, he’s just a troublemaker without justification. Rebel with no cause.

[@markmower6507]

I Subscribed.

[@knox.gunterstallbauer6877]

faszinierend

[@NeshaStanic]

"The only way to stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun" powerfull stuff

[@madisonmills5037]

Setlist?

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

"It's complicated, like all walls are complicated." Private property must be bought, sold and protected so that the owners can rule.

[@awambengeu2525]

Je ne rappelles Nantes awasococim@ je te souhaite une bonne journée pour votre produit de qualité

[@metal4142]

MITICA !

[@dxxxt]

It's sad to notice it wasn't real-time communication there with Ai Weiwei at all

[@Diswijn]

Does anyone know what the first song they play is called?

[@goncalocabrita7124]

+Roland du Preez If you mean the one starting at 5:24, it's "From the air", from the album "Big Science" (1982).

[@MrDrewlips]

"The only way to stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun????"

[@goodgravy3047]

"Google Glasses" LOL 😜

[@user-li6kn3lf6u]

Охренеть!!!!

[@davidmayhew4818]

where's YoYo?

[@aopLib19]

WHICH IS MORE MACHO? 1) Sparse notes in the description or 2) A listing of the songs in this video?

[@user-pm5et6en4g]

МММ лорочка !!!!!ю

[@popartdesign]

What is she playing on?

[@erflingnot]

I’m not sure but many her instruments are of her own design in the early years..... she started out with a violin with a tape head built into it Bo was a piece of tape that she played forward and backward and she knew exactly where to hit the tape head to make a word or sentence sound and to slow it down and speed it up in other words she was blowing words

[@indiatastic]

Electric violin

[@lazysingledaisybronwyn8105]

She doesn't look happy. She told a certain truth, in correct order to what I heard in 2016.

[@craighasty9480]

Who is that drummer

[@metomp67]

from her website: - Greg Saunier (drums) - Eyvind Kang (viola, keyboards) - Doug Wieselman (saxophones, clarinet)

[@jaimebenavides5789]

How important is intelligence

[@ASHMUSICBOX]

I LOVED HER EARLY WORK BUT THAT WAS AWKWARD WITH SKYPE GOING ON ALSO WTF, DID NOT WORK FOR ME

[@ALBERTO30114]

Laurie is great and creative, Ai Wei Wei complains about Chinese system but he lives in China, he is very rich, he could live overseas where he believes there is freedom. His artworks sell for million of dollars, but he is using the Chinese political system to make money. He knows that if he would live overseas he won't be able to be so popular. And also he is using young Chinese to make his work paying them peanuts. Ai likes to be a star, you are very smart........

[@christianfink3619]

ok, the drummer...

[@paolopicciau6894]

Un msg.... per chi? Per che? 🖐️!

[@eye4design981]

American Planes

[@estebanbriozzo167]

No me llega a convencer

[@robertochiang8057]

Prueba con "Home of the Brave" que es menos intelectual y mas performático.

[@sexypoetry]

music is all about sex, by definition...when someone starts singing about "politics" it is the sign of some sexual problem....

[@coolbian513]

libtards