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Michael Kiwanuka (The Met Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, September 29, 2024)

Posted in Brittany Howard, Michael Kiwanuka, Philadelphia, PA, The Met Philadelphia, Yasmin Williams on October 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »

[ATTENDED: September 29, 2024] Michael Kiwanuka

Michael Kiwanuka’s previous album Kiwanuka was a slow burning joy for me. I liked every song that I heard from it even though I never actively listened to it. And then I bought it and liked it even more.

I knew I wanted to see him live (he appears in the film Yesterday as himself and was suitably cool in it).

So when this tour was announced I grabbed a ticket right away.  Since it was a double bill, I wasn’t sure who was going on first.  In my head, Brittany Howard is a bigger draw than Michael Kiwanuka, but what do I know.

If nothing else I thought that maybe the two artists would share maybe the same stage set, maybe even the same musicians.  I mean, can you imagine if they had the same backing band and Brittany left and then Michael came out with no changes at all?  That would be wild!

And implausible of course.  Brittany set was taken down, Michael’s was put up and then his band came out. (more…)

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Brittany Howard (The Met Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, September 29, 2024) [MICHAEL KIWANUKA]

Posted in Brittany Howard, Michael Kiwanuka, Philadelphia, PA, The Met Philadelphia, Yasmin Williams on September 30, 2024| Leave a Comment »

[ATTENDED: September 29, 2024] Brittany Howard

I was really excited to see Michael Kiwanuka but less so about Brittany Howard (although I see that in 2020 I said I was excited to see her live).  Actually I loved her Tiny Desk Concert back in 2020, so I guess the thing was I didn’t really like Alabama Shakes because I don’t really like blues rock.  Although I just realized that they sing Don’t Wanna Fight which I really like, so I guess I’m just dumb.

So I clearly should have been more excited to see her live.  But maybe it’s better that I wasn’t because SHE BLEW ME AWAY!

From the moment she walked on looking like a sparkling goddess, she commanded the room.

To be honest I’m surprised she wasn’t the headliner of this two person tour–I guess maybe they are coheadlining, but still).  The crowd around me went crazy for her–the two women near me were yelping and screaming (I assume they were both pretty drunk).

Howard’s band was fantastic.  She had four musicians behind her, a guitarist next to her and two backing vocalists on her side.  Her drummer Nate Smith was outstanding–he even had a (very brief) drum solo.  I don’t know any of her songs really (except Stay High) so I don’t know the setlist.  But wow, what a voice–so commanding–and what a range.  So impressive.  I also had no idea she played guitar.  There were two other guitarists, so she didn’t play all the time.  Mostly, she played rhythm, but occasionally she played louder parts–with a great tone on that old guitar.  And then every once in a while, she played a guitar solo and totally killed it.  I didn’t know she soloed. but she was really impressive at that too. (more…)

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Yasmin Williams (The Met Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, September 29, 2024) [MICHAEL KIWANUKA]

Posted in Brittany Howard, Michael Kiwanuka, Philadelphia, PA, The Met Philadelphia, Yasmin Williams on September 29, 2024| Leave a Comment »

[ATTENDED: September 29, 2024] Yasmin Williams

I hadn’t heard of Yasmin Williams before this show.  But as soon as I watched a video of her, I knew I wanted to see her set.  (Any video will do, definitely check her out).

My tickets said that the show would start at 7:30.  I arrived a little later than I intended, but was still there by around 7:20.  It took a while to get into the venue and by the time I got close to the stage (it wasn’t very crowded yet), Yasmin finished a song and announced her last song!

I don’t know what time she actually went on (a little after 7, I guess) so I only had the chance to watch one of her songs.

It was wild fingerpicked guitar (she lays the guitar on her lap and has a kalimba at the end of it as well.  So much fun to watch.  I’m not sure I would simply listen to her–although her song was lovely.  I don’t really listen to solo acoustic guitar music.  But I would absolutely see her live any time.

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