ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) -
Sheryl Crow delivered an energy packed performance Saturday night under the Gateway Arch as the headliner for the All Star Charity Concert. British musician Elvis Costello joined in with a guest performance. The two entertained a crowd that filled the national park grounds from Memorial Drive to the Arch.
It was Crow's first performance under the Arch. The native Missourian remembers watching Elton John perform during a Fair St. Louis event. She said she expected the Saturday night event would rank as a "Top Twenty" life memory for her.
The singer introduced one song by saying she had first performed it twenty years ago at Mississippi Nights, a onetime night club on LaClede's Landing. Crow got her start playing and singing in St. Louis clubs while working as a music teacher in St. Louis County.
The performance ended with a display of fireworks over the Mississippi River. This was the only concert of the summer that occurred on the ground beneath the Arch. Fair St. Louis and future Live on the Levee performances will use the Overlook stage on Leonore K. Sullivan Blvd.
Major League Baseball first added a free public concert to its All Star festivities in 2008 in New York City's Central Park. The league donated one million dollars to a new charity Standup 2 Cancer. Crow, a cancer survivor, donated her performance and corporate sponsors paid other expenses.
It was Crow's first performance under the Arch. The native Missourian remembers watching Elton John perform during a Fair St. Louis event. She said she expected the Saturday night event would rank as a "Top Twenty" life memory for her.
The singer introduced one song by saying she had first performed it twenty years ago at Mississippi Nights, a onetime night club on LaClede's Landing. Crow got her start playing and singing in St. Louis clubs while working as a music teacher in St. Louis County.
The performance ended with a display of fireworks over the Mississippi River. This was the only concert of the summer that occurred on the ground beneath the Arch. Fair St. Louis and future Live on the Levee performances will use the Overlook stage on Leonore K. Sullivan Blvd.
Major League Baseball first added a free public concert to its All Star festivities in 2008 in New York City's Central Park. The league donated one million dollars to a new charity Standup 2 Cancer. Crow, a cancer survivor, donated her performance and corporate sponsors paid other expenses.
