Henderson Live

With all the people moving to Vegas we wonder sometimes where all our tax money is going. Well aside from schools and other community needs Henderson has also been redeveloping the main downtown area of the city. As part of the redevelopment, they have put in an Events Plaza with as stage and a large courtyard area. The redevelopment of the downtown is very pleasing to the eye. Too bad the neighborhood around there consists of houses that were built mainly before the 70s and look kind of run down.

So anyways on Saturday we went to the first annual "Henderson Live" music event in Henderson to kick off all that new development that has been happening, and who should be headlining Henderson Live, but Sophie Milman. Aside from vendors selling food and sponsors giving away stuff like basketballs, it was a pretty low key event. We ended up sitting in the 4th row or so but we could of gotten front row if we did not feel embarrassed eating our Taco Bell right in front of the performers. Maybe it was not crowded because it was the first event ever and not many people knew about it or also because it is still hitting 100 degrees most of the days here and we were there in the early afternoon, but I think next year will be bigger from word of mouth. I enjoyed the music although Karri thought the music was a bit to Jazzy for her taste. Perhaps live performances tend to be more Jazzy with all the instrument solos where they go off and do their thing. Sophie herself preformed very well and in contrast it is too bad some pop stars can’t sing to save their life. The event was to run all the way till 10pm with other artists coming in and doing their thing. We stayed about an hour and then went to do some other errands we had for the day. There are some pictures we took posted on Flickr along with Logan playing in the water works. - Brian