WYEP Music Blog

Thanks to all that attended this year’s 12th Annual WYEP Summer Music Festival at Schenley Plaza on Friday, June 26th.  The crowd was out early for great sets from Meeting of Important People, The Duhks, Dar Williams, and The Sam Roberts Band.

Meeting of Important People

The Duhks

Dar Williams

Sam Roberts Band

It turned out to be a beautiful summer night for outdoor music. Thanks to all that attended ! A big Thank you goes out to all the bands and our WYEP volunteers that helped to make this years event a very special one.

A few memories and notes:

1. The Jackson 5, “the Love You Save”

   
   

2. Michael Jackson, “Leave Me Alone”
   
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3. Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie) covering “Thriller” live:

   
   

   4. The “Jackson 5ive” cartoon:

   
   
   

Recently Beck got together a bunch of friends to record an entire album in a day. Not a new album, but a song-by-song tribute to an album of the past. Calling the project “Record Club,” Beck worked with his ad hoc group to cover The Velvet Underground & Nico. The ensemble included Beck, Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Holmes, and Thorunn Magnusdottir. Here’s one of the fruits of their labor:

The fans were singing, clapping and dancing along to their favorite Indigo Girls songs Sunday night.  They were more than receptive to the songs from their new album “Poseidon and the Bitter Bug” – which was good, since Amy Ray and Emily Saliers performed almost all of the tracks from their new disc (just released in March).  Amy and Emily started off the show with two new songs and interspersed the new material with the older more familiar tunes during a solid 90 minute plus set, and a two song encore.  Nearly two dozen songs, with the new material seamlessly intertwined among the fan favorites.  Included were some of the songs that you can find on WYEP’s 913 Essential Songs Countdown: “Power of Two”, “Galileo” (final song of the evening) and the #1 essential song “Closer to Fine” which brought David Ryan Harris back up on stage to join the Indigo Girls on a verse or two.  Amy shined solo on “Romeo & Juliet”.  Julie Wolf accompanied the Indigo Girls on stage playing electric keyboards and accordion and providing backing vocals.

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