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David Gray on Connecting With His Concert Audiences: ‘We’re Not Here to Just Make a Few Dollars’
David Gray talks about connecting with audiences on his Dear Life tour. Listen to his interview with Billboard's Behind the Setlist podcast.
“Even within changing the set, I’m adding things in that I haven’t planned for,” the British singer-songwriter tells Billboard ’s Behind the Setlist podcast. At another concert, a fan shouted a request for “The Song of Wandering Aengus,” a track based on a poem by William Butler Yeats that Gray has performed live but never recorded. Incorporating surprises, telling stories about his music and taking chances helps connect Gray to the audience and heighten the concert-going experience.
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