2015-01-01 Phish
in Phish, Concerts 2015
Concerts 2015
2015-03-16 Phil Lesh 75th Birthday Celebration
Capitol Theater
2015-04-24 Steve Winwood
Capitol Theater
Winwood at the Capitol Theatre, sounding great as usual.
2015-06-10 Dave Matthews Band
PNC Bank Arts Center
DMB always seem to pack a lot of great music into the shows at PNC.
2015-06-12 Dave Matthews Band
Xfinity Theatre
2015-06-21 Clearwater Festival
Croton Point County Park
2015-06-26 Dave Matthews Band
Susquehanna Bank Center
Amazing diversity of songs and phenomenal setlist. Warren fitting right in … with Neil Young’s “Down by the River” played with great passion; the ‘‘Lovely Ladies” on background vocals and the fans singing loudly.
There is a wonderful Copperpot video available online, My photos cover a lot of goodies including Boyd’s big solos, the “industrial" stage set for the Acoustic set, and some nice looks up at Dave and Carter as they mingled a bit after the show. The sequence with Warren bears a resemblance to what’s seen in the Copperpot video, but my angle is a bit more extreme and I think it makes the shots pretty interesting.
2015-06-27 Dave Matthews Band
Susquehanna Bank Center
Maybe my favorite live acoustic set ever; a completely topnotch setlist all throughout, with the boys at the top of their game, loose and relaxed in spite of the hurricane outside. Just stunningly great music throughout. Camden becomes one of my favorite venues in the world after seeing phish and dmb shows there over the years.
2015-07-03 Dave Matthews Band
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Slideshow below: DMB at SPAC, 7-03-2015
Bela Fleck as a planned guest for Saratoga shows. Dreaming Tree with Bela was ultra great, and there's an awesome Copperpot video online of it. This show was chock full of big numbers.
2015-07-04 Dave Matthews Band
Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Another classic night at SPAC, again with Bela. This was the weekend of the Fare Thee Well shows in Chicago, and while Bela joined on Banjo in the acoustic set, the opening G major scale notes of Friend of the Devil started to come forth, instantly recognizable. Copperpot’s video captures the event magnificently.
Slideshow Below: DMB at SPAC, 7-4-2015
2015-07-07 Rusted Root
Mirror Lake Bandshell
Free outdoor concert on the Lake. I remembered seeing Rusted Root play at some of the first Further festivals in the 90s, featuring some big percussion jams.
2015-07-18 Hot Tuna
Capitol Theatre
2015-07-31 Dave Matthews Band
Cruzan Ampitheater
N1 featured a monsoon right before the show, and an appearance by a more welcome guest, Branford Marsalis. A few shots in a slideshow at left.
2015-08-01 Dave Matthews Band
Cruzan Ampitheater
Classic DMB show, they seemed so relaxed and in good spirits on this closer of the major portion of the summer tour.
I caught some good moments, including Carter’s interaction with a young boy after the show... A couple of Boyd solos in the slideshow, in the acoustic set he plays one on top of the monitor speaker…..
Slideshow below: DMB West Palm Beach 2015
2015-08-28 Dave Matthews Band
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
A setlist more typical of 2014 than 2015 and one you would expect for a location where attendees didnt see many dmb shows. The venue is a little weird, it looks like a corporate campus (and is), with hardly a lawn. The second half of electric set featured well-played classics including a monster jam on Lie in Our Graves.
2015-08-29 Dave Matthews Band
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
This show smoked from start to end. It had beautiful set openers, strong set-closers, old favorites, a wonderful Pig>Watchtower encore, and a bunch of strong funk numbers in set 2. Dave was suffering from a sore throat but made a great effort to belt out all the vocals.
2015-09-12 Little Feat
Capitol Theater
2015-10-03 John Sebastian & David Grisman
Tarrytown Music Hall
Below: Publicity card for the Garcia and Grisman film documenting their work during the early 1990s.
2015-10-07 ALO
Brooklyn Bowl
ALO hadn't gotten to the east coast much, and this was a rare opportunity to see them at a small venue. It was a hot show, and the band literally walked outside onto the street still playing instruments, New-Orleans-style, at the end.
2015-12-12 Guster
Capitol Theater
