Q&A with Singer Inda Eaton
Performer eases back to the stage after COVID hiatus
BY ANGELA LAGRECA
Inda Eaton loves the open
road and touring the world
in concert. She is “addicted
to adventure,” but this has
clearly not been the year for that.
Now Eaton, the wildly talented,
popular singer-songwriter and
midwestern transplant who calls
East Hampton home, is taking it
back to the stage — slowly.
A recent gig at The Stephen Talkhouse
in Amagansett with her pal,
another local music legend, Nancy
Atlas, was a big step — an artistic
glimmer of hope in these undeniably
shaky times.
So is live music “back?” The effusive
Eaton is quick to clarify.
“It’s not ‘back,’ it’s NOW,” emphasizes
Eaton. “We’re back, in a
way… but we’re not ‘back.’ I do that
to protect myself.”
She’s right. “Back” for Eaton
Inda Eaton’s last concert was 14 months ago at the Bay Street Theater.
is the packed house with her full
band and musical guests at the last
concert she did at Bay Street Theater
14 months ago on March 7 — a
show that almost didn’t happen.
ANNEMARIE MCCOY
The sold-out staged concert
celebrating the release of Eaton’s
eighth album, the unknowingly
prophetic Shelter in Place (written
and titled before the pandemic)
OUT EAST END
marked the last time Bay Street
was open to the public. Soon after,
stages round the world, as we
knew them, went dark.
To commemorate the one year
anniversary of the Shelter in Place
concert, this past March, Eaton
edited and released it as a videoon
demand.
“It’s a beautiful mix that could be
its own record,” says Eaton. “That
was the last show, but ironically it
brought me back to life.”
Eaton says she was so blown
away by the huge response and
success of the video-on-demand
that she knows that there will be
an encore presentation of the Shelter
in Place concert. But when will
that be?
“I think we are in ‘hybrid’ land
— we got one foot in a live show in
public, and I think we can still have
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