Bluestem Center for the Arts Amphitheater, Moorhead MN
Aug
5
Sat
Essentia Health & Jade Presents
Essentia Health Presents: Train with Better Than Ezra
Moorhead,
MN
United States
Show at 7:00 PM
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TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
RESERVED: $98.50
GA LAWN: $48.50
ADA: $134.00 / $48.50
GA BENCH: $64.00
ADA COMPANION: $134.00 / $48.50
TICKET SALE DATES
RESERVED / GA LAWN / ADA / GA BENCH / ADA COMPANION Public Onsale: March 10, 2023 10:00 AM to August 5, 2023 3:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced Jade Presents:
Train: Train is a multi-GRAMMY and Billboard Award-winning band from San Francisco that has had 14 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 list since the release of their debut self-titled album. Train's climb to the top began in 1994, as the original 5-member band tenaciously built a loyal hometown following, leading up to their debut album, released by Columbia in 1998. The tumbling wordplay of "Meet Virginia'' gave them their first unlikely radio hit and 2001’s Drops of Jupiter broke them to multi-platinum status thanks to the double-Grammy Award-winning title song that spent 10 months in the Top 40, has been certified 7x platinum in the US, and earned the 2001 GRAMMY Award for Best Rock Song. The group won another GRAMMY Award in 2011 for their global hit “Hey, Soul Sister'' from their multi-platinum album Save Me, San Francisco. “Hey, Soul Sister '' was the No.1 best-selling smash and most downloaded single of 2010, achieved RIAA Diamond status in 2021 and now 11x platinum, and in 2022 surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. Train has sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide, with multiple platinum/gold citations, including three GRAMMY Awards, two Billboard Music Awards and dozens of other honors. They’ve had 12 albums on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their 2014 Bulletproof Picasso reaching No. 4 in 2012 and 2017’s a girl a bottle a boat debuting at No. 8. “Play That Song,” the lead single from a girl a bottle a boat, went platinum in four countries including the U.S., hit Top 5 on the US iTunes chart, Top 10 at Hot AC radio, and charted at Adult Top 40. Train’s highly anticipated 11th studio album, AM Gold, was released on May 20, 2022.
To purchase accessible seating, please call Tickets300 at 866-300-8300.
Etix is the ONLY authorized ticketing agent outside of the Tickets300 box office. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (scalper, ticket broker, eBay, Craigslist, etc.), you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets which may result in refusal of admission.
RESERVED: $98.50
GA LAWN: $48.50
ADA: $134.00 / $48.50
GA BENCH: $64.00
ADA COMPANION: $134.00 / $48.50
TICKET SALE DATES
RESERVED / GA LAWN / ADA / GA BENCH / ADA COMPANION Public Onsale: March 10, 2023 10:00 AM to August 5, 2023 3:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced Jade Presents:
- Reserved Seating & General Admission Seating/Standing Available
- OUTDOORS
- RAIN OR SHINE
Train: Train is a multi-GRAMMY and Billboard Award-winning band from San Francisco that has had 14 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 list since the release of their debut self-titled album. Train's climb to the top began in 1994, as the original 5-member band tenaciously built a loyal hometown following, leading up to their debut album, released by Columbia in 1998. The tumbling wordplay of "Meet Virginia'' gave them their first unlikely radio hit and 2001’s Drops of Jupiter broke them to multi-platinum status thanks to the double-Grammy Award-winning title song that spent 10 months in the Top 40, has been certified 7x platinum in the US, and earned the 2001 GRAMMY Award for Best Rock Song. The group won another GRAMMY Award in 2011 for their global hit “Hey, Soul Sister'' from their multi-platinum album Save Me, San Francisco. “Hey, Soul Sister '' was the No.1 best-selling smash and most downloaded single of 2010, achieved RIAA Diamond status in 2021 and now 11x platinum, and in 2022 surpassed one billion streams on Spotify. Train has sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide, with multiple platinum/gold citations, including three GRAMMY Awards, two Billboard Music Awards and dozens of other honors. They’ve had 12 albums on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their 2014 Bulletproof Picasso reaching No. 4 in 2012 and 2017’s a girl a bottle a boat debuting at No. 8. “Play That Song,” the lead single from a girl a bottle a boat, went platinum in four countries including the U.S., hit Top 5 on the US iTunes chart, Top 10 at Hot AC radio, and charted at Adult Top 40. Train’s highly anticipated 11th studio album, AM Gold, was released on May 20, 2022.
Train frontman, Pat Monahan, partakes in other ventures outside of music, including his award-winning wine portfolio, Save Me, San Francisco Wine Co, which was created in 2011 and has sold over 10 million bottles and won over 100 medals. Proceeds from his wine business support Family House, a San Francisco charity that supports families of children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Monahan has appeared on television and in film with credits that include the 2021 Hallmark Channel original movie, Christmas in Tahoe, inspired by Train’s album of the same name, which he executive produced and starred, Dr. Ken, 90210, CBS’s Hawaii Five-0 and Magnum P.I., The Voice, American Idol, and The Bachelor.
To purchase accessible seating, please call Tickets300 at 866-300-8300.
Etix is the ONLY authorized ticketing agent outside of the Tickets300 box office. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (scalper, ticket broker, eBay, Craigslist, etc.), you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets which may result in refusal of admission.
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$134.00
Aug
5
Sat
Essentia Health Presents
Essentia Health Presents: Train with Better Than Ezra - Decks and Party Pads
Moorhead,
MN
United States
Doors at 5:00 PM, Show at 7:00 PM
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PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced by Jade Presents:
Bluestem Party Pad:
- Limited General Admission Barstool Seating
- Private Air Conditioned Restrooms
- Private Bar Line
- Unobstructed Views
- OUTDOORS
- RAIN OR SHINE
Train: Train is a multi-GRAMMY and Billboard Award-winning band from San Francisco that has had 14 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 list since the release of their debut self-titled album. Train's climb to the top began in 1994, as the original 5-member band tenaciously built a loyal hometown following, leading up to their debut album, released by Columbia in 1998. The tumbling wordplay of "Meet Virginia'' gave them their first unlikely radio hit and 2001’s Drops of Jupiter broke them to multi-platinum status thanks to the double-Grammy Award-winning title song that spent 10 months in the Top 40, has been certified 7x platinum in the US, and earned the 2001 GRAMMY Award for Best Rock Song. The group won another GRAMMY Award in 2011 for their global hit “Hey, Soul Sister'' from their multi-platinum album Save Me, San Francisco. Train has sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide, with multiple platinum/gold citations, including three GRAMMY Awards, two Billboard Music Awards and dozens of other honors. They’ve had 12 albums on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their 2014 Bulletproof Picasso reaching No. 4 in 2012 and 2017’s a girl a bottle a boat debuting at No. 8. “Play That Song,” the lead single from a girl a bottle a boat, went platinum in four countries including the U.S., hit Top 5 on the US iTunes chart, Top 10 at Hot AC radio, and charted at Adult Top 40. Train’s highly anticipated 11th studio album, AM Gold, was released on May 20, 2022.
Train frontman, Pat Monahan, partakes in other ventures outside of music, including his award-winning wine portfolio, Save Me, San Francisco Wine Co, which was created in 2011 and has sold over 10 million bottles and won over 100 medals. Proceeds from his wine business support Family House, a San Francisco charity that supports families of children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Monahan has appeared on television and in film with credits that include the 2021 Hallmark Channel original movie, Christmas in Tahoe, inspired by Train’s album of the same name, which he executive produced and starred, Dr. Ken, 90210, CBS’s Hawaii Five-0 and Magnum P.I., The Voice, American Idol, and The Bachelor.
Etix is the ONLY authorized ticketing agent outside of the Tickets300 box office. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (scalper, ticket broker, eBay, Craigslist, etc.), you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets which may result in refusal of admission.
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Aug
15
Tue
Essentia Health & Jade Presents
Essentia Health Presents: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats with Thee Sacred Souls - Party Pads
Moorhead,
MN
United States
Doors at 5:00 PM, Show at 7:00 PM
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PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced by Jade Presents:
- Party Pad | GA first come first serve
- OUTDOORS
- RAIN OR SHINE
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats:
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Aug
15
Tue
Essentia Health & Jade Presents
Essentia Health Presents: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats with special guests Thee Sacred Souls
Moorhead,
MN
United States
Doors at 5:00 PM, Show at 7:00 PM
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TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $99.50 / $49.50 / $39.50
ADA: $99.50 / $39.50
ADA COMPANION: $99.50 / $39.50
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED / ADA / ADA COMPANION Public Onsale: April 21, 2023 10:00 AM to August 14, 2023 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced Jade Presents:
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats:
It took Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats less than five years to become one of the most recognizable new forces in contemporary rock ’n’ roll. Since 2015, Rateliff has led his denim-clad, horn-flanked Night Sweats, supplying the zeal of a whiskey-chugging Pentecostal preacher to songs about this world’s shared woes. They’ve had hits, sure, but their combustible mix of soul and rock quickly cemented them as the rare generational band who balanced ecstatic live shows with engrossing and rich records. To wit, is there any other modern act capable of revving up stadium crowds for The Rolling Stones while also appearing on Saturday Night Live and CMT Crossroads and at NPR’s Tiny Desk in short order?
To purchase accessible seating, please call Tickets300 at 866-300-8300.
Etix is the ONLY authorized ticketing agent outside of the Tickets300 box office. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (scalper, ticket broker, eBay, Craigslist, etc.), you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets which may result in refusal of admission.
ADVANCED: $99.50 / $49.50 / $39.50
ADA: $99.50 / $39.50
ADA COMPANION: $99.50 / $39.50
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED / ADA / ADA COMPANION Public Onsale: April 21, 2023 10:00 AM to August 14, 2023 11:59 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced Jade Presents:
- Reserved Seating & General Admission Seating/Standing Available
- OUTDOORS
- RAIN OR SHINE
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats:
It took Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats less than five years to become one of the most recognizable new forces in contemporary rock ’n’ roll. Since 2015, Rateliff has led his denim-clad, horn-flanked Night Sweats, supplying the zeal of a whiskey-chugging Pentecostal preacher to songs about this world’s shared woes. They’ve had hits, sure, but their combustible mix of soul and rock quickly cemented them as the rare generational band who balanced ecstatic live shows with engrossing and rich records. To wit, is there any other modern act capable of revving up stadium crowds for The Rolling Stones while also appearing on Saturday Night Live and CMT Crossroads and at NPR’s Tiny Desk in short order?
When Rateliff returned from his pandemic-truncated solo tour in March 2020, he struggled with the same question that vexed so many of us then—what now? Fortunately, he returned to his Colorado homestead and penned a set of songs that synthesized his introspection with his anthemic inclinations. The result is The Future, the third Night Sweats album but the first to capture this octet’s true depth and breadth. An instant classic of 11 songs, the album presents something more sustainable, interesting, and indeed open—a songwriter and band growing into bigger questions and sounds, into a future that allows them to remain recognizable but be so much more compelling than some denim-clad caricature.
To purchase accessible seating, please call Tickets300 at 866-300-8300.
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$39.50
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$99.50
Aug
23
Wed
Jade Presents
Essentia Health Presents: Lindsey Stirling with Walk Off The Earth - PARTY PAD
Moorhead,
MN
United States
Doors at 4:00 PM, Show at 6:00 PM
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PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced by Jade Presents:
- Party Pad | GA first come first serve
- OUTDOORS
- RAIN OR SHINE
Lindsey Stirling: Lindsey Stirling is an electronic violinist, dancer, and artist who has humbly become one of the 21st century’s most innovative stars. Her groundbreaking vision has gained her millions of adoring fans worldwide, four Billboard chart-topping albums, and two Billboard Music Awards including Top Dance/Electronic Album for her third studio release, Brave Enough. Her holiday album, Warmer in Winter, catapulted to the #1 spot on Billboard, Amazon, and iTunes Holiday Album charts upon release, and lead single “Carol of the Bells” made history as the only instrumental song ever to reach the Top 10 at AC Radio. Lindsey has amassed over 12.5 million subscribers, nearly three billion views on YouTube, three million followers on Tik Tok, and over 500k user-generated creations across Tik Tok and Instagram reels. In addition to this, Forbes placed her at #4 on its 2015 World’s Top-Earning YouTube Stars list, and her fifth studio album, Artemis, debuted at #1 on the Dance/Electronic Album Chart. Stirling has performed for more than 800,000 people on her headline tours, and her co-headline tour with Evanescence was named one of Live Nation’s best-selling amphitheater tours of 2018.
Etix is the ONLY authorized ticketing agent outside of the Tickets300 box office. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (scalper, ticket broker, eBay, Craigslist, etc.), you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets which may result in refusal of admission.
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Aug
26
Sat
Sea Foam Intl / Essentia Health Present: THRIVEFEST 2023 - Featuring Jeremy Camp
Moorhead,
MN
United States
Doors at 1:00 PM, Show at 2:00 PM
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TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $59.00 / $49.00 / $39.00
GROUP RATE: $54.00 / $44.00 / $34.00
ADA: $59.00 / $39.00
ADA COMPANION: $59.00 / $39.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED / GROUP RATE / ADA / ADA COMPANION Public Onsale: March 17, 2023 10:00 AM to August 26, 2023 12:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced Jade Presents:
For assistance purchasing accessible seating, please call Tickets300 at 866-300-8300.
Etix is the ONLY authorized ticketing agent outside of the Tickets300 box office. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (scalper, ticket broker, eBay, Craigslist, etc.), you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets which may result in refusal of admission.
ADVANCED: $59.00 / $49.00 / $39.00
GROUP RATE: $54.00 / $44.00 / $34.00
ADA: $59.00 / $39.00
ADA COMPANION: $59.00 / $39.00
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED / GROUP RATE / ADA / ADA COMPANION Public Onsale: March 17, 2023 10:00 AM to August 26, 2023 12:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced Jade Presents:
- Reserved Seating & General Admission Seating/Standing Available
- OUTDOORS
- RAIN OR SHINE
Thrivefest is a Christian music festival in Moorhead, Minnesota providing a full day of family-friendly entertainment. This year's event will be held on Saturday, August 26th, 2023 at the amazing Bluestem Amphitheater. Proceeds from the festival support the Rising Hope Foundation. Rising Hope Foundation's mission is to provide shelter and healing while igniting hope and restoration to children freed from the abuses of Human Trafficking. A Festival with a Purpose!
LINE UP:
* Love and the Outcome
* Adelaide
* Fargo Worship
* Mark Schultz
* Brandon Heath
* Jeremy Camp
For assistance purchasing accessible seating, please call Tickets300 at 866-300-8300.
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$34.00
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$59.00
Sep
10
Sun
Essentia Health & Jade Presents
As part of Essentia Health's Concert Series, Jade Presents: Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit with Wednesday
Moorhead,
MN
United States
Doors at 5:00 PM, Show at 7:00 PM
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TICKET PRICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
ADVANCED: $155.00 / $95.00 / $49.50 / $39.50
ADA: $155.00 / $39.50
ADA COMPANION: $155.00 / $39.50
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED / ADA / ADA COMPANION Public Onsale: April 28, 2023 10:00 AM to September 10, 2023 4:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced Jade Presents:
Jason Isbell: A Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach a certain age -- and carry a certain amount of scars. “There is something about boundaries on this record,” Isbell says. “As you mature, you still attempt to keep the ability to love somebody fully and completely while you’re growing into an adult and learning how to love yourself.” Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown-ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. The record features the rolling thunder of Isbell’s fearsome 400 Unit, who’ve earned a place in the rock ‘n’ roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers. They make a big noise, as Isbell puts it, and he feels so comfortable letting them be a main prism through which much of the world hears his art. He can be private but with them behind him he transforms, and there is a version of himself that can only exist in their presence. When he plays a solo show, he is in charge of the entire complicated juggle. On stage with the 400 Unit, he can be a guitar hero when he wants, and a conductor when he wants, and a smiling fan of the majesty of his bandmates when he wants to hang back and listen to the sound. The roots of this record go back into the isolation of the pandemic and to Isbell’s recent time on the set as an actor on Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. There were guitars in his trailer and in his rented house and a lot of time to sit and think. The melancholy yet soaring track “King of Oklahoma” was written there. Isbell also watched the great director work, saw the relationship between a clear vision and its execution, and perhaps most important, saw how even someone as decorated as Scorsese sought out and used his co-workers’ opinions. “It definitely helped when I got into the studio,” Isbell says. “I had this reinvigorated sense of collaboration. You can have an idea and you can execute it and not compromise -- and still listen to the other people in the room.”
To purchase accessible seating, please call Tickets300 at 866-300-8300.
Etix is the ONLY authorized ticketing agent outside of the Tickets300 box office. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (scalper, ticket broker, eBay, Craigslist, etc.), you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets which may result in refusal of admission.
ADVANCED: $155.00 / $95.00 / $49.50 / $39.50
ADA: $155.00 / $39.50
ADA COMPANION: $155.00 / $39.50
TICKET SALE DATES
ADVANCED / ADA / ADA COMPANION Public Onsale: April 28, 2023 10:00 AM to September 10, 2023 4:00 PM
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced Jade Presents:
- Reserved Seating & General Admission Seating/Standing Available
- OUTDOORS
- RAIN OR SHINE
Jason Isbell: A Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach a certain age -- and carry a certain amount of scars. “There is something about boundaries on this record,” Isbell says. “As you mature, you still attempt to keep the ability to love somebody fully and completely while you’re growing into an adult and learning how to love yourself.” Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown-ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. The record features the rolling thunder of Isbell’s fearsome 400 Unit, who’ve earned a place in the rock ‘n’ roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers. They make a big noise, as Isbell puts it, and he feels so comfortable letting them be a main prism through which much of the world hears his art. He can be private but with them behind him he transforms, and there is a version of himself that can only exist in their presence. When he plays a solo show, he is in charge of the entire complicated juggle. On stage with the 400 Unit, he can be a guitar hero when he wants, and a conductor when he wants, and a smiling fan of the majesty of his bandmates when he wants to hang back and listen to the sound. The roots of this record go back into the isolation of the pandemic and to Isbell’s recent time on the set as an actor on Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. There were guitars in his trailer and in his rented house and a lot of time to sit and think. The melancholy yet soaring track “King of Oklahoma” was written there. Isbell also watched the great director work, saw the relationship between a clear vision and its execution, and perhaps most important, saw how even someone as decorated as Scorsese sought out and used his co-workers’ opinions. “It definitely helped when I got into the studio,” Isbell says. “I had this reinvigorated sense of collaboration. You can have an idea and you can execute it and not compromise -- and still listen to the other people in the room.”
To purchase accessible seating, please call Tickets300 at 866-300-8300.
Etix is the ONLY authorized ticketing agent outside of the Tickets300 box office. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (scalper, ticket broker, eBay, Craigslist, etc.), you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets which may result in refusal of admission.
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$39.50
-
$155.00
Sep
10
Sun
Essentia Health & Jade Presents
As part of Essentia Health's Concert Series, Jade Presents: Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit with Wednesday- PARTY PADS
Moorhead,
MN
United States
Doors at 5:00 PM, Show at 7:00 PM
More Information
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION
Produced by Jade Presents:
- Party Pad | GA first come first serve
- OUTDOORS
- RAIN OR SHINE
Jason Isbell: A Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach a certain age -- and carry a certain amount of scars. “There is something about boundaries on this record,” Isbell says. “As you mature, you still attempt to keep the ability to love somebody fully and completely while you’re growing into an adult and learning how to love yourself.” Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown-ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. The record features the rolling thunder of Isbell’s fearsome 400 Unit, who’ve earned a place in the rock ‘n’ roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers. They make a big noise, as Isbell puts it, and he feels so comfortable letting them be a main prism through which much of the world hears his art. He can be private but with them behind him he transforms, and there is a version of himself that can only exist in their presence. When he plays a solo show, he is in charge of the entire complicated juggle. On stage with the 400 Unit, he can be a guitar hero when he wants, and a conductor when he wants, and a smiling fan of the majesty of his bandmates when he wants to hang back and listen to the sound. The roots of this record go back into the isolation of the pandemic and to Isbell’s recent time on the set as an actor on Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. There were guitars in his trailer and in his rented house and a lot of time to sit and think. The melancholy yet soaring track “King of Oklahoma” was written there. Isbell also watched the great director work, saw the relationship between a clear vision and its execution, and perhaps most important, saw how even someone as decorated as Scorsese sought out and used his co-workers’ opinions. “It definitely helped when I got into the studio,” Isbell says. “I had this reinvigorated sense of collaboration. You can have an idea and you can execute it and not compromise -- and still listen to the other people in the room.”
Etix is the ONLY authorized ticketing agent outside of the Tickets300 box office. If you purchase tickets from an unauthorized agent in the secondary market (scalper, ticket broker, eBay, Craigslist, etc.), you risk purchasing counterfeit or invalid tickets which may result in refusal of admission.
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