11/29/2023 0 Comments Sarcastic sounds i dont sleepThe B-Side Angel Olsen joined her multi-colored ensemble onstage in a striking blue jumpsuit. He then went full Dad Mode and reminded everyone to drink plenty of water. Downing exhibited this when he and the band stopped their final song while festival staff attended to someone who needed medical attention. Downing got everyone's feet moving with a version of the Deslondes song " Less Honkin’ More Tonkin’," which he said is about how we need to take care of each other. Set against the rain backdrop, Downing played a pretty chill set to start the day. That was definitely true of the Missouri-based Downing, who's also a member of the New Orleans band The Deslondes. ![]() The crowds by the stage are always a little smaller earlier in the day at Hinterland, and the people who go down are usually pretty familiar with the artist. Are you ready to party? Whooooeeeeee!," we were off to the races. There's more than one way to start a show, but Riley Downing is the first artist we’ve ever seen bring out his father as a hype man. The B-Side Riley Downing sounds like he looks, in the best possible way. The Opener You Missed And Should Be Kicking Yourself For: Riley Downing If you left early or didn't get it at the fest, pull out his first album the next time you get snowed in. Noah Kahan, who played Saturday, told the crowd that he laid on the hill listening to Bon Iver and had one of the best nights of his life. Given the sound frequencies he was sending through the prismizer, the story being told by the lighting design created a unique kind of poetry. The effect he uses has become known as The Prismizer Effect, and became popular in the early 2010s (it’s also been used by artists like Frank Ocean). His signature sound shone through on his vocals. His set included hits “ Perth,” “ Holocene” and “ Skinny Love,” two singing drummers and a saxophone solo by Michael Lewis.īon Iver’s set had one of the most impressive lighting packages we’ve seen at an outdoor show in Iowa, which made perfect sense. IPR Bon Iver brought two drum sets and a massive lighting rig to his Friday headlining performance, yet still managed to shroud himself in darkness.Ī cloudy August sky after a cool summer shower was perhaps the perfect setting for a deeply introspective set by Bon Iver on night one. We counted four violins and three trumpets on stage, and couldn't begin to count the number of Zach Bryan fans. It rained the hardest during Del Water Gap’s set, and Maggie Rogers encored with her hit “Falling Water.”ĭespite soggy socks and muddy shoes, what a weekend. ![]() Except for a glorious Saturday, that’s what we did for the rest of the weekend. Now, the band name name 'Bon Iver' is a play on the French phrase 'bon hiver,' meaning 'good winter.’ Having a good winter is all about making the best of bad weather. This year, instead of heat, we got rain, and we headed home Sunday thinking about the way life set us up for another moment.īon Iver was the opening headliner, and it was the full band's first time playing in central Iowa. Glass Animals closed 2022’s Friday night with a song called “Heat Waves,” and set us up for a Saturday night with Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. Last year at Hinterland, we wrote about how the music set the stage for the weather.
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