Raul Malo Leaves Mavericks Home, Brings 'New' Music / Message in Rare, Intimate Solo Show

‘I don’t know what people fought about… Seems like they’re angry all the time…just ‘cuz you don’t share my point of view..’ Malo offers us some thoughts along with his beautiful music in rare ‘living room’ solo concert at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley CA May 17

CONCERTS, VENUES OPENING UP following 2 years of pandemic shutdown.. with special, intimate concerts, often with messages like this one from Raul Malo, until large crowds are back: ‘I don’t know what people fight about… Seems like they’re angry all the time…just ‘cuz you don’t share my point of view..’ Raul Malo offers us some thoughts along with his beautiful music in rare ‘living room’ solo concert at Freight and Salvage in Berkeley CA May 17

Malo continues his ‘Let’s get together’ theme in tthis song at Berkeley; May 17

Malo has developed into quite an entertainer. Here he holds the Berkeley crowd in his hands as he continues his ‘Nostalgic rant’- if a little politic , but the audience loves it even if he does allude to the mis-direction of the country during the current Democrat administration in a very liberal town. Malo, Himself, alluded to his own liberalism early in the show yet bemoaned some of the devisiveness that has come out as a result of an extreme, un-united administration.

Malo plays a refashioned Mavericks hit At Berkeley 5-17-22. here part 2 that follows

A lover of 50s and 60s music, Malo sings pieces of Blue Moon, Sentimental reasons, You Send Me

another example of the sensitive, nostalgic side of Malo as he hardens back to another oldie with a message of better times and what America SHOULD mean , not the the ‘unrecognizable ‘ state it has devolved into today. what a treat to see Rauk Malo perform solo and up close at this intimate venue with just a few hundred people- perhaps tha KS, in part, to post pandemic times and his interest In this

Malo is quite the nostalgist and lover of the old songs he probably heard his folks play growing up. here he covers another old chestnut, well suited to his vocal style. freight & Salvage 5-17 – 22 in rare, intimate solo appearance in Berkeley CA

Maverick great closes rare, perhaps once- in- a- lifetime solo performance with most unique selection , Sukiyaki, about a pilot’s experiences in and following WWII and how his country, Japan, became unrecognizable, which Malo relates to our situation today… to what some are calling the start of WW III…and how we’ve gotten away from appreciating and treating each other respectfully, regardless of backgrounds and beliefs.