It was wild to be in that place empty, and it was hopeful and it was nostalgic. What was it like for you to be back onstage and back at the Hollywood Bowl?
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"It was so special and it felt really reverent to share that space and to share it with a very small amount of people."Īnd now the intimate show - which includes Bareilles' full band performing an abbreviated set of Amidst the Chaos Tour songs, plus a hilarious performance with her Girls5eva bandmates Renée Elise Goldsberry, Busy Philipps and Paula Pell - will be shared with a much bigger crowd.īillboard was on site at the Hollywood Bowl for the recording, and we caught up with Bareilles after to discuss the emotions she felt at the initial 2019 show, the new livestream taping and why making Girls5eva amid the COVID-19 pandemic was so cathartic.įirst of all, thanks so much for inviting us to a concert.
"To imbue this event with all of the context and the experience of what last year meant, and the impossibility of being in a space like that, it just was so layered," Bareilles tells Billboard of returning to the empty Hollywood Bowl last month to record Friday's stream, which is promoting the live album as well as her new Girls5eva series about a reuniting '90s girl group, streaming now on Peacock. ET, Bareilles is hosting a livestream concert from the venue on her YouTube page, and on May 21, she'll release Amidst the Chaos: Live at the Hollywood Bowl, a 21-track project recorded at that November 2019 show. She never could have imagined that the next time she would set foot on the same stage, it would be in front of 17,000-plus empty seats amid a global pandemic.īut even though the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter couldn't bring her fans back to the Bowl just yet, she has two different ways to bring the Bowl to her fans: First, on Friday at 7 p.m. In 2019, Sara Bareilles accomplished what she had previously thought of as a career "impossibility": she headlined the Hollywood Bowl on a chilly November night, with her name atop the vaunted Los Angeles venue's marquee for the very first time.
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