The show was divine....and it's not lost on me that these two artists met cute less than a year ago. After the show Saturday night Laura was reminiscing about being in the green room at the Media Theatre and she sees Bill and initially thinks to herself "Oh great....who's this guy in the green room?"
She said she freaked a little more when he asked her if she would sing something with him later leading her to think "what, I don't know this guy and I don't know his songs, and he's asking me to sing with him?"
I was there that night and they absolutely nailed a duet cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." The rest as they say is history.
Laura now travels to Pittsburgh to sing bgvox with the band and they've shared the stage as a duet a handful of times. Bill informed the crowd of how they met and how they became like instant Best Friends Forever...... 
Having seen a few now, Saturday night's was easily the best of the bunch.
She's got the piano parts to his songs down and her backing vocals fit Bill's songs perfectly. A real sight to see...and for some strange reason I want to compare her playfullness with Bill onstage to the likes of Sonny and Cher.....to say, she keeps him on his toes. Bill covers Van Morrison's Sweet Thing and towards the end he sings what ever comes to mind and counts on someone to echo the line. Like the mimic game kids play only more musical resulting in an echo vocal (like Van Morrison used to do with Brian Kennedy)
Only this time.....Bill sings: I've never been this happy.
Laura should repeat the line: I've never been this happy.
No....not Laura Shay. Instead...she sings back:
Why are you so happy, Bill?
"I don't know why I'm so happy" He sings back.
The answer is right there onstage for all to see.
Sorry to go on and on......it was moving to watch.
Plus, I couldn't help thinking of Glen Hansard and Marketa Iglova's amazing chemistry in this wonderful story of two artists meeting cute while listening to Bill and Laura covering their hit song from the movie.
