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Red Butte Gardens is a local botanic garden in the foothills behind the University of Utah. There is an open air amphitheatre there and during the Summer they run a series of music concerts in the gardens. On Friday night Mark & I went to see the New York based Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Wynton is a trumpet player who has won 9 Grammy awards and is the artistic director at the Lincoln Center. He went to the same high school in New Orleans as Mark's brother & sister. We took some wine and a picnic dinner and enjoyed a very pleasant 3 hours of jazz music in the gardens in the cool of the evening as the sun went down.
Every Summer Red Butte Gardens puts on a series of music concerts in their open-air amphitheatre. They get a variety of artists and music styles from jazz to country to contemporary. We pack some wine and a picnic dinner and sit on a blanket (along with about 1500 other people) in the gardens and enjoy a pleasant evening of good food and music.
Tonight we came to see David Byrne. For those of you who don't know him Byrne was the founding member and principal songwriter of the "new wave" band Talking Heads (1974-1991) with songs like "Take me to the River" and "Burning Down the House". Since then he has had a successful solo career as well as working on film (soundtracks), ballet and opera.
The show was very entertaining with good music and Byrne's unusual, quirky style.
