Brite Winter Festival (2025)

Brite Winter Festival, this year on the East Bank of the Flats!  Loved it - as always. 

Travis (2/11/25)

It has been a pretty rough beginning of the year, and I had chosen to not see some shows - including ones that I even had tickets for (Joy Oladokun, Guster, ugh), but I did make it out to see this Travis show at the Agora.  Going back and trying to figure out when I saw them last, I realized that it was before I started my blog (9/13/00 at the Agora), but I did post about them here - talking about how nice it is having just moved to a city where I don’t have to drive two hours back home after the show.  Reading that was just a little extra motivation to make sure I made it to this show - and I’m so glad I did!  

They sounded great. It wasn’t a huge crowd, which I’ll always appreciate.  Even got a nice spot up front for some good video.  They’re such a delightful and down-to-earth band.  Fran in particular is a real character.  I ran across a podcast he did with Bob Lefsetz.  Very entertaining.  And their new album is as good as anything they’ve done!

BoomBox (2/12/25)

Another BoomBox show show at the Beachland Ballroom, another great reason to dance.  Met some really fun people that night...

Of course it’s always a delight to see Joey Sardelle warm up a crowd.