Lake Street Dive
Since the start of the pandemic, my husband and I have attended very few (as in...a total of 3) live concerts. Even thought we both are doubled vaccinated and double boosted, the various variants and concerns over long-haul COVID have kept us masking and avoiding crowds (as much as is possible).
Thankfully, we love to hike, and my husband is an avid cyclist and golfer, so it is not as though we are sitting around with nothing to occupy time. BUT...we definitely miss going to concerts.
Missing music is one reason why we jumped at the chance to see one of our new favorite bands when they were playing in an outside venue. Lake Street Dive! https://www.lakestreetdive.com/about
With vocals by the soulful Rachael Price and music that makes you want to dance and sing along, this band gives a great show. Their hit song “Tell Them I’m A Good Kisser” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxEM6beqREA ) had hundreds of audience members singing and cheering (yep...I was one of those singers/cheerers!), and “Hypotheticals”(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWFaKidyD70 ) was a hit.
It was a lovely, warm night with a lake on one side of the space and some food trucks available for simple snacks and a cash bar for wine/beer. There was the unmistakable aroma of pot (reminding me of the late 70s/early 80s when I went with friends to hear The Numbers Band on Saturday nights...and a few people surreptitiously (they thought) passed joints in dark corners of JB’s (Up) in Kent). Just like those days, people around us were sharing with limited regard to COVID protocols (alas!). (Nope...not for us! No interest in that particular “concert experience”!)
The entire evening was joyful and fun and soul healing. We needed an outdoor concert. Yes...“needed” because it was a reminder of a time—not so very long ago—when we enjoyed music without giving a moment’s thought to a pandemic or political differences or the possibility of mass shootings or any of the sad and horrible things that have marked recent years. It was a dive into Lake Street Dive and a kind of happiness that I had been missing.
