Where to Hear Sunday's Washington, D.C. Inauguration Concert

HBO has the exclusive rights to show the inauguration concert on TV, but luckily you can hear the concert FREE on the radio on a number of NPR affiliates throughout the country, or listen online with a free live stream. The concert starts at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 18th and includes such stars as Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Herbie Hancock, Sheryl Crow, and Stevie Wonder.

There will also be celebrities such as Jack Black, Martin Luther King III, Laura Linney, and Denzel Washington speaking or reading passages of historical texts. And Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at the concert as well.

The radio stations broadcasting the concert included New York's WFUV and WNYC; see the Web site above for full details. (I've since noticed that at least a couple of the stations NPR mentioned are either not broadcasting the concert but are Webcasting it; or are broadcasting it only on their secondary HD channels.) Some of the stations broadcasting the concert may stream it live from their Web sites as well. NOTE: Unlike many other live concerts broadcast on NPR, this one will not be archived for future listening (says NPR), so if you want to hear it, catch it live.

Full list of scheduled performers, according to NPR:
Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Jon Bon Jovi, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Renee Fleming, Mstr. Sgt. Caleb Green, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, Bettye Lavette, John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, John Mellencamp, Pete Seeger, Shakira, Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, U2, Usher, will.i.am and Stevie Wonder.

View Sheryl Crow Concert Online

Sheryl Crow's team has sent out an e-mail announcing that the MSN Network's "Control Room" will be airing an entire concert by the singer beginning Thursday, March 6th. The show will launch at 11 a.m. Eastern time. According to the e-mail the concert can be viewed here.

Sheryl Crow also has a few late-night TV appearances coming up, as well as some additional concerts:

4/22, Wichita, KS
Century Concert Hall

4/23, Tulsa, OK
Brady Theater

4/25, New Orleans, LA
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

4/26, Pensacola, FL
Pensacola Civic Center

4/27, Jacksonville, FL
Moran Theater

4/29, Clearwater, FL
Ruth Eckerd Hall

4/30, West Palm Beach, FL
SunFest

5/3, Atlanta, GA
Chastain Park Amphitheatre

Sheryl Crow Back in New York for Feb. Gigs

It's been a while since Sheryl Crow headlined a gig in the New York area, but she's coming back for a pair of concerts (Feb. 6th and 7th), and at a smaller venue than before.

Crow played some shows on tour with John Mayer a year or so ago. And was scheduled to headline a show at the New Jersey Performing Art Center a couple of years back, but had to cancel that part of her tour when she discovered she had breast cancer. Now she's doing two shows at Irving Plaza (of "Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza," as the venue is now called).

As a longtime Sheryl Crow fan, I'm glad to see her in a smaller venue like Irving Plaza, where I can move up close if I want (even though it's a standing-only venue), as opposed to the larger, more formal concert halls where you're stuck in an assigned seat, probably far from the action unless you can pony up for tickets in the first few rows.

Sheryl Crow's new album "Detours" is aptly named, reflecting on the twists and turns in life, including the ones that she has experienced in the last few years: her breakup from fiance Lance Armstrong, her diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer, and her new role as a mother (she adopted a child last year). "Detours" also marks a return to working with producer Bill Bottrell, the man who worked with her on her breakthrough first album, "Tuesday Night Music Club."

With all these changes and reflections, maybe it's fitting that Crow is returning to playing in smaller, standing-only clubs. She may well be playing in a big seated concert hall on her next trip to New York, so I'm going to catch her at Irving Plaza this time.