[POSTPONED: April 30, 2020] Dan Deacon / Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
I have wanted to see Dan Deacon live ever since I saw his mind-blowing Tiny Desk Concert.
Deacon is an electronic musician and a bit of a wild card. His shows are full of audience participation and are a lot of fun. There’s improv and looping and a whole lot of jumping around.
He hasn’t played Philly since 2015 (apparently, when he opened for Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz). Well, he did a show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (!) back in 2018, which was apparently wonderful, but which I wasn’t prepared to go to.
I was super excited to see that he was playing at Underground Arts and I grabbed tickets immediately. UA would have been an ideal venue to see him in, with the low ceiling and wide audience area. I do hope this tour gets rescheduled soon.
When show were first starting to get cancelled in March, I held out hope that a show at the end of April might still go on. But shows all around him started getting postponed. He held out longer than most artists before postponing.
Technically Deacon’s music isn’t really my scene. I do like him quite a lot, but I don’t particularly like other music like it.
So Ed Schrader’s Music Beat is a duo and Dan Deacon produced their latest album. I listened to a couple of songs but didn’t really like it all that much.
I’ll bet they are fun live, especially if Deacon is guiding them.
Do come back soon, Dan!
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