Melissa Manchester
Last weekend I had the pleasure of hearing (and meeting) Melissa Manchester, a superb singer-songwriter whose music has touched my life for so many years. She generously performed at a free concert in Marina Del Rey, California (amid the typical munchers and chatters that come out for concerts in the park) but she is a true professional. It was just Melissa, her piano, and a guitarist – but it’s a sparse setting like this (without aural pyrotechnics or a too-loud backup band) that separates the men from the boys, so to speak, and demonstrated her consummate and decades-proven artistry.
