Crowds at concerts can be pretty rude. They walk on you without thinking twice about it, howl at the performer in the middle of the set and even slobber. So it's a nice change of pace to take in some culture around a more well-behaved group of music fans. In this case, dogs.
Legendary performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson performed for ruff-ly 50 pups in Times Square on Monday night. She played the tape-bow violin -- an instrument she invented -- at a frequency only dogs can hear. The humans in the audience had to wear headphones.
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Anderson's Heart of a Dog, the 2015 film about her dog, Lolabelle, who was a painter and musician himself, was broadcast across screens in Times Square. Hardcore music fans braved the 14 degrees Fahrenheit weather for a taste of culture.
The dogs joined in on the show when Anderson welcomed their barks, “If you have a little dog, get him barking.” Eventually, the chorus of canines all came in on cue.