Moon Boots just makes you wanna dance with their new video for Come To Me. Caribou released this dog-tastic video for You Can Do it! Charli XCX turns the sexiness up to 10 with her video for Good Ones.
Bonus: This Troye Sivan video of STUD has what you’d expect, STUDS.
Speaking of nostalgia coming off seeing Alanis Morissette & Garbage, the very next night I’m getting to see Indigo Girls close by at Cain Park! The bonus was that they brought Lucy Wainwright Roche along as part of the band, and she even got a couple songs on her own on stage!
When some friends have an extra ticket to see Alanis Morissette & Garbage down at Blossom Music Center - you take it! Nostalgia galore. Quite the crowd too!
This is generally not my type of festival, but I couldn’t have been more excited to see that Channel Tres had a headlining DJ set! There’s quite a story around my actual getting to the festival (via bicycle), but that’ll remain an offline story if you ever want to ask. Otherwise, it was a gorgeous day to have a festival and it was just fun to be outside with people. At least for the first day. (The second day rained and we ended up bailing and hanging out with drag queens in the Short North!)
I’ve also captured 2 videos, the first being a collections of clips from the festival, but I created a separate video just for the Channel Tres clips. I had also found out that day that he was having an after party at The Forum in downtown Columbus that night (!) so I included a clip from that as well. I can’t wait to catch him again!
Another year, another Ani DiFranco concert. These never get old.
Opening was Elizabeth Moen, but we only caught a few moments of her performance (and no video). However, I do remember we talked after the show about a possible TZA house concert appearance. 😏
Oh to be back in the Beachland Tavern… especially to see friends performing. It was an all local night with Istvan Medgyesi, Orefice Roth, and Jaite performing!
This little festival was a savior last year, and it was even better this year. What a great group of friends to get weird with out in the fields.
Beachland started getting into the pandemic concert game, with seats with big clear plastic dividers. It didn’t help the sound, but again - anything it takes. This was a wonderful night of live, and mostly local (or formerly local) artists. Both Joe Wunderle and Austin Stambaugh were really enjoyable - and of course both were backed up by the venerable Cory Grinder and the Playboy Scouts!
Another show from the Grog Shop’s pandemic series of seated and masked concerts was So Long, Albatross, with Tom Evanchuck opening. Any reader of this blog knows I’m a big fan of Tom, with him performing at my very first house concert! So tonight was really about him, and I couldn’t have asked for anything more healing in this time than his familiar sound and song.
So Long, Albatross took the stage, and was surprisingly my first time seeing them. Maybe not surprisingly actually, since they’re a little more rock than I roll usually - but always love supporting the local acts.
Creaking this door back open a bit. From the date on this post, you’ll see I’m a bit behind on posting shows… Seeing shows during the pandemic in these early days felt like we were breaking some rules, but at the same time, but I’m always happy to answer the call to support the local live music scene. Grog Shop had a series of seated, masked concerts this past Spring and Summer that were a lifeline for us avid concert-goers. It was great seeing Jenna Fournier at the Grog this night.
