An evening with Suzanne Vega

 Suzanne Vega  George Holz

The singer-songwriter brings An Evening of New York Songs and Stories to the Triflion in Echternach.

A rising star in the mid-1980s, Suzanne Vega is perhaps best known for two stand-out songs released in 1987. Luka and Tom’s Diner were both gleaned from her second album, Solitude Standing. Luka, which tells the story of a boy suffering child abuse, marked Vega as a unique and sensitive songwriter. Tom’s Diner was actually written in 1982 and first issued on a 1984 issue of Fast Folk Magazine, but didn’t really become a hit until 1990 when a version remixed by UK duo DNA stormed the charts.

Vega’s latest album, , is an homage to her hometown. It was recorded live at the Café Carlyle and opens with another of hit, Marlene on the Wall, then runs through some of her lesser known tracks and a cover version of Lou Reed’s Walk On The Wild Side. In between, Vega tells anecdotes to the audience. This is the show she brings to Echternach and it promises to be, as American Songwriter magazine puts it, “a master class in articulate, striking songwriting