Cat Power- The Greatest - 20th Anniversary

Radiant-Bellevue welcomes Cat Power for The Greatest 20th Anniversary

At Radiant-Bellevue, we are honored to open our stage to Cat Power for a night dedicated to The Greatest 20th Anniversary, a celebration of an album that rewrote the contours of indie soul in the mid-2000s. Our hall in Caluire-et-Cuire, just outside Lyon, is purpose-built for intimate voices and nuanced instrumentation, and the warmth of its acoustics lends itself beautifully to the album’s hushed drama, its velvet strings, and its Memphis-inflected pulse. We are shaping this date with the care such a landmark deserves: a lighting design that lets every breath of the vocal phrasing glow, a sound mix attentive to piano, guitar, and the elegant swing that underpins the record’s most beloved moments. With Cat Power’s unmistakable timbre resonating through our room, the audience will be invited into the living heart of an artist whose quiet intensity turns a concert into a shared confidences session—open, fragile, and deeply human.

Cat Power now: recent chapters feeding a classic

Hosting this anniversary makes special sense given Cat Power’s recent creative streak. In 2022 she released Covers, a collection that shone new light on modern standards and unexpected favorites, threading her voice through songs like Unhate, Pa Pa Power, Bad Religion, I’ll Be Seeing You, A Pair of Brown Eyes, Here Comes a Regular, I Had a Dream Joe, Against the Wind, and White Mustang. In 2023 she unveiled Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall, an audacious live homage that embraced the tension and tenderness of a historic night with readings of Mr. Tambourine Man, It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, and Like a Rolling Stone. These recent projects show an artist unafraid to reinterpret, reframe, and renew, qualities that illuminate the way she returns to The Greatest today—honoring the album’s soul while letting it breathe with the wisdom of two more decades lived on stage and in song.

From our vantage point at Radiant-Bellevue, The Greatest 20th Anniversary promises an experience that balances fidelity to the original album with the immediacy of a live encounter. Expect the quiet sway and burnished glow of pieces that have become touchstones—The Greatest, Living Proof, Lived in Bars, Willie, The Moon—delivered with the kind of poise that turns time into atmosphere. Our team is curating an environment where the dynamics can rise and fall without losing their intimacy, where a single piano figure can carry the room and a whisper can feel as grand as a chorus. And while the center of the evening is this classic cycle, the recent path of Cat Power’s concerts suggests she may gesture toward other corners of her songbook—echoes from Wanderer like Woman or Horizon, and the restrained romance of Stay—folded naturally into an encore shaped by the night’s energy. We look forward to welcoming listeners for a concert that feels both historic and alive in the present, a meeting between a beloved record and a stage designed to let it bloom.