Review: Was Van Morrison’s San Diego concert a celebration of classics, a classic bait-and-switch, or both?
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune
SAN DIEGO — Van Morrison performed classic song after classic song Monday night in San Diego at his sold-out concert at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. The fact that most were written by other artists — all dead for decades or, in some cases, even a few centuries — made the evening simultaneously rewarding and frustrating, and both engaging and disengaging. Rewarding because the famously grumpy Morrison was not phoning it in, as he did during much of his decidedly uneven 2019 gig at Chula Vista’s North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre. The famed Irish troubadour was clearly engaged at The Shell…