[ATTENDED: July 22, 2022] Jonah Yano
Clairo’s Sling tour with Arlo Parks was supposed to happen at the Fillmore on February 26 2022. It had been sold out for a long time. I had actually been interested in going just to see Arlo Parks. But by the time my daughter said she wanted to go to see Clairo, it was long sold out.
I followed along because something happened to the show the night before. And then the Philly show was was postponed on that day with almost no warning.
There were comments on Facebook like
If my daughter hadn’t looked at IG we wouldn’t have known. We were ready to hit the road. Why are we not receiving communication via email/ticketmaster
And on reddit:
So sad i drove 6 hours to philly and have been waiting
Yikes.
Apparently it was a COVID scare, but the communication was terrible. However, the rescheduled date was a gain for me because tickets immediately went on sale and I snatched up 2 at 7PM that evening.
Sadly for me, Arlo Parks would not be joining her. The new opening act was Jonah Yano whom I had never heard of.
My daughter has the misfortune (or good taste, I guess) to like popular people. So this show was sold out and packed.
We were way in the back (which she doesn’t mind, but which I don’t like). And we were standing around waiting for Jonah Yano to come out. I still had no idea who he was (he’s a Toronto-based R&B singer I gather) and came out with his band. The band played a rather daring noisy introduction with a lot of soloing–skronking saxophone and feedbacking guitars.
It was interesting but not really enjoyable.
And then he started singing and, indeed, he was a smooth R&B singer with a TON of saxophone and I hated it.
But the crowd really responded to it and to him and I’m guessing that Jonah has quite the future ahead of him.
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