[ATTENDED: September 27, 2025] Lucy Dacus
My daughter and I saw Lucy Dacus on the first night of this tour back in April in Philadelphia. Now, this was officially the last night of the U.S. tour (she did play other shows this year but not in the same way). I had certainly never seen anyone on the first and final nights of a tour, and it was fascinating to see how much the show had morphed over the five months. The set was the same, but the setlist was different. It was shorter (festival timing rather than solo timing) but she also made some changes to what she played.
And the biggest difference was that she had a string quartet playing with her for many of the songs.
My daughter and I rushed to the barricade to get right up close to Lucy and were then shocked that the pit remained largely empty. It wasn’t that people weren’t into her–they were. And the lawn was massively full. I guess no one wanted to give up their seats after the long day?
Anyway we were right on the barrier, but pretty far to the right. So when the quartet sat down, they basically blocked our view of the rest of the stage. My daughter wandered around the pit (it was that empty) for a better view but determined that there wasn’t a better spot. [Although having seen her photos, I think straight on was a much better spot].
The set was the same–a gigantic backdrop designed to look like a museum wall. There were picture frames and columns and it looked amazing. Although from our location off to the side, you could see the video screens that projected the mages. Obviously we knew there were video screens, but the illusion was somewhat lost because the images were skewed a bit.
So the show opened the same way except that the Calliope Prelude had the quartet playing (instead of it being projected). And the quartet stayed on stage for the first few songs. Like in April, the first song was Hot & Heavy, which is a fun way to get the crowd excited. She followed it with her biggest new single Ankles. (more…)
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