Entertainment reporter/columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Lindsey Stirling will play La Vista's Astro Amphitheater on Monday. For Lindsey Stirling, it’s all about the show.
As hands-on as any artist could possibly be, the violinist and dancer spent six months working on every aspect of the show that she’ll bring to La Vista’s Astro Amphitheater on Monday. That means, she told me last month, she works on the show’s concept and flow, costumes, set design and aerial choreography and puts together the set list that brings it all together. “The show is my baby, for sure,” she said.
“I feel like that's one of the things I'm best at. I don't think my best gift is writing the music. I don't think my best gift is even being a violinist.
I think my best gift is actually being able to tell a story, and being able to do it on stage in a long form and put on a show, I think that's the thing I'm really good at — making a show.” Her show prep, however, didn’t start this year. It was in her mind when she started writing the 12 songs that became “Duality,” the album she released in June.
"I've always written music not so much because I love the writing process, but because I love performing," she said. “That's the whole reason I started getting into the style of music I do. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to do energetic, big performances.
'” The album spins together classically rooted,.