Ongoing History Daily: Wild gigs in nature
Most musicians are happy playing a show in a club, theatre, or arena from a stage. Others are not.
- For example, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto performed on piano in the exclusion zone around the area created by the giant earthquake in Japan in 2011. His performance took place the following year
- In 2016, a pianist named Ludovico Einaudi had a grand piano set up on a floating iceberg in the Arctic Ocean in a melding of music and climate change.
- In 2025, a French cello player played an event while suspended from a zip line hundreds of feet in the air in the French Alps.
- My favourite is Metallica’s gig for scientists at the Carlini Research Station in Antarctica. That made them the first artist to perform on all seven continents.
