Out of all the concerts ever performed, this is the one I most wish I had been at. The Soviet Union was dissolving, and the jokesters in the Finnish parody band Leningrad Cowboys sent an invitation to the Red Army musicians to join them in concert in Helsinki. They meant the invitation as a stunt, but the Russians surprised them by agreeing, and tens of thousands of people, including some old friends of mine, gathered on Senate Square in Helsinki to celebrate what they hoped was the joyous, thrilling end of decades of fear of their gargantuan neighbor. The whole concert is called Total Balalaika Show, and I should totally watch it again.
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Out of all the concerts ever performed, this is the one I most wish I had been at. The Soviet Union was dissolving, and the jokesters in the Finnish parody band Leningrad Cowboys sent an invitation to the Red Army musicians to join them in concert in Helsinki. They meant the invitation as a stunt, but the Russians surprised them by agreeing, and tens of thousands of people, including some old friends of mine, gathered on Senate Square in Helsinki to celebrate what they hoped was the joyous, thrilling end of decades of fear of their gargantuan neighbor. The whole concert is called Total Balalaika Show, and I should totally watch it again.
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