[DID NOT ATTEND: April 23, 2023] Nickel Creek / Gaby Moreno
Nickel Creek was one of the bands on my “really wanna see but they probably won’t tour” list. So when they announced this tour I was pretty excited to see them.
I also grabbed a ticket for my wife, thinking we could spend a nice Sunday evening near her birthday at a show and maybe a dinner.
But I think she wasn’t especially interested from the get go. Every time I mentioned it, there was no excitement. By the time the show came around, I pretty much knew we weren’t going to go.
She encouraged me to go by myself, but it didn’t feel right. So I’m guessing I never will see them after all.
Ironically, just a few days later, Nickel Creek had to postpone several of their dates because Chris Thile was sick:
“Nothing upsets us more than not being able to deliver a scheduled performance (which has happened just once before in our 34 years as a band), especially because as devoted concertgoers ourselves, we know how much goes into attending,” the band wrote. “We are deeply moved (and now further saddened) to see and hear the stories of how many of you were traveling/have travelled to join us at these shows, and will be doing EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER to make it up to you over the course of this year’s touring. We are so grateful for each and every one of you, and so, so, SO sorry about the news.”
They went on to describe the circumstances behind their postponements, sharing that Thile began the tour with a sinus infection, then caught the flu and did his best to power through it, which damaged his vocal chords. They went on to write, “[Thile’s] doctor, one of the country’s top voice specialists, says that he’d be risking far more serious damage if we proceeded and has prescribed a couple of weeks of rest and rehab.” They went on to thank everyone, including their fans, their crew and their management team – who are currently doing everything to make things amended as smoothly and quickly as possible and closed the message with hopes that they’ll be performing once again in late May.
I wondered if he wasn’t especially “on” for our show, but I’ll never know.
I know of Gaby Moreno from a Tiny Desk Concert which really impressed me. She sings in both English and Spanish and brings a lot of her home country of Guatemala to her music.
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