May 25, 2010
Tomo Nakayama of Grand Hallway: BARE
Tomo Nakayama performing Judy Garland’s “The Man That Got Away”
While BARE allowed us to see some of our favorite performers in a brand new way, it was Tomo Nakayama of Grand Hallway who stole the show with the most unlikely of song choices: a Judy Garland song and Sam Cooke’s classic “A Change is Gonna Come.” Tomo dead-panned that he needed to get into character before performing Garland’s “The Man That Got Away” with deft delicacy to a crowd stunned into silence. After considerable applause and no warning, Tomo went straight into “A Change is Gonna Come.” As he belted “I was born by river,” in a voice that seemed far too big for his small frame, the reverent church crowd went wild. Despite all the hymnals that were performed last Friday it was Tomo’s take on a modern classic that got the loudest chorus of “amens!”
Tomo Nakayama performing Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”
on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 11:30 am
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