U2 Rose Bowl | Youtube U2 Concert

Did you catch the U2 concert on YouTube last night? The one that was streamed live from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena?

There was admittedly something awe-inspiring knowing that people all over the world were watching it at the same time. A Twitter widget embedded on the U2 YouTube page streamed tweets tagged with #U2webcast: Peru, Philippines, Brazil, Ecuador, Indonesia, Argentina, Mexico....

The show was only supposed to be broadcast to 16 countries, including the US, but we saw countries named in the tweets that weren't in the official list.

In any case, if this was any indicator, maybe live concerts—pay-per-view-style—will prove to be a revenue generator for the business-model-struggling YouTube.

And in the meantime, if you missed it, YouTube promises the concert will be available for viewing on the official U2 channel.

Sara Evans Will Sing at All-Star Game

Sara Evans will sing at Major League Baseball's All-Star Game on Wednesday (July 15). She will perform "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. President Barack Obama will throw out the first pitch. The game, as well as Obama and Evans' appearances, will be televised on Fox starting at 8 p.m. ET. Evans recently released a new single to country radio called "Feels Just Like a Love Song."

The Laurie Berkner Band hits all the right notes

Concerts for kids can fall into several categories: Big sound of big venues, cozy and cute or interactive. Plus, there’s often a disconnect between the youngest audience members and the oldest.

What a treat, then, to see someone do it right, for everyone. In a concert Sunday at Manhattan’s Town Hall, the Laurie Berkner Band hit all those marks and more. A Brooklyn-based former preschool teacher and current Noggin channel phenomenon (her new music-video special for the network begins airing July 12), Berkner and her crew—Susie Lampert on piano, Adam Bernstein on bass and newcomer Bob Golden on drums—filled the hall with a full sound that’s progressed to the point that their latest album, "Rocketship Run," is as listenable for parents as for their little ones.

Though the pajama party theme at last weekend’s show—which also collected new PJ’s for The Pajama Program (www.pajamaprogram.org), which helps children entering foster care—was certainly a tot crowd-pleaser. As the lights came up, Berkner and company was sitting on a canopied bed, asleep. Startled by the giggles coming from the audience, they took instruments in hand and did a rousing set of old and new tunes, which got the young fans dancing in the aisles (a common occurrence at Berkner shows.)

The stuffed animals who came with the pajama theme got their moment for "Pig on Her Head" (the title says it all). "Choc-o-lot in My Pock-o-Lot" got the kids rhyming and miming with the band. In the middle of "We Are the Dinosaurs," Berkner did her version of James Brown’s mid-song heart attacks—falling asleep clutching her guitar before everyone shouts "Wake up, Laurie!"—to lots of laughs. And the earthy "Walk Along the River" got voices singing "Ooh-ahh, oooh-ahh" and doing arm-waves in unison.

By show’s end, there was a hide-and-seek ("Going on a Hunt"), world music ("Let’s Samba") and a new lullabye about the moon. And tons of fun.

Laurie Berkner will perform solo as part of the opening festivities at the Little Airplane Café, a new live music venue for families, on Sunday, July 12. (Little Airplane Studios, 207 Front St. in the South Street Seaport; doors open at 12:30 p.m.; concerts begin at 1 pm. For more information, call 212-965-8999 or go to: www.littleairplane.com.)