KELSEYVILLE — The daytime showers threatened a 15-year-record at Konocti Harbor Resort & Spa. The venue has hosted more than 1,500 outdoor shows without one single weather related cancellation, according to Greg Bennett.
Master of ceremonies Terry Montgomery has not missed announcing a show there in 16 years.
A cool wind pushed up off of the lake to greet the mighty Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant who resembles a kind lion.
Preceding Plant and Alison Krauss on stage, a tiny blond dynamo from Philadelphia ?Sharon Little, wearing a pink lace skirt and a black leather jacket ? epitomizes a modern day Cinderella story.
In early 2008 she was working as a waitress but less than five months later, she is the opening act on the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett “Raising Sand” tour.
The show at Konocti was the last of the tour featuring music from “Raising Sand,” as well as a few other carefully chosen songs.
Though Plant”s music has morphed and evolved, he made room for some old Zeppelin favorites with a new sound. A rendition of “Black Dog” was slowed to a haunting pace with Krauss” powerful, brown sugar sweet sound.
A predominantly middle-aged crowd sat through the show with less than 10 people popping up sporadically to dance.
The bundled seated crowd swayed in unison to the music of the band featuring guitarists Buddy Miller and Stuart Duncan, stand-up bassist Dennis Crouch and drummer Jay Bellerose.
Plant shook the maracas to “I”m in the mood for a melody.”
The seasoning to the sound was that of the fiddle, with a sprinkle of the mandolin and at times a banjo.
“Put your hands together for the governor,” Plant said as he introduced T Bone Burnett.
The potpourri of instruments and musicians created an original sound by one of the masters of original sound, Robert Plant.
A Carnegie Hall caliber show closed out the outdoor amphitheater season at Konocti Harbor Resort & Spa.
Mandy Feder can be reached at mfeder@record-bee.com.
