Sufjan Stevens @ BAM

Only Sufjan Stevens could sell out 3 performances about the BQE. The first half of the evening consisted of an ordered set of instrumental compositions. The stage was horizontally split by a 3 channel video screen that showed 8mm movies of the BQE and its surroundings. I thought the videos were beautiful and tied in with the music nicely. Several songs had live hula-hooping performers who were also in the videos. Their costumes and lit-up hula hoops were quite trippy. Sufjan played more of his “hits” in the second half of the set. He played “The Majesty Snowbird”, a triumphant song and the musical highlight of the evening. Overall a very impressive audio visual performance.