Spirit Family Reunion
Spirit Family Reunion is a band built for Newport. A rag-tag group of old-timey musicians playing old-school folk. The band employs strong vocal harmonies belted into a single microphone onstage. Their bond as musicians is immediately apparent. They play music very close to each other and seem to genuinely enjoy every second of it. The band wowed last year at their Newport debut and the crowd at the quad stage was eager with anticipation to welcome them back. I would change nothing about this group or their live act. Well maybe one thing – with their success hopefully someone can find frontman Nick Panken a new white t-shirt. His seemed to be left over from a time when reel-to-reel recording was still the norm.
Lord Huron
Day 3 at Newport is all about relaxing. Fest-goers are wrapping up an epic weekend of “folking” and more than likely are quite hungover from the Friday and Saturday night festivities. Slotting Lord Huron mid-day at the quad stage couldn’t have been better. The band hails from Los Angeles and plays an almost tribal style of experimental folk. Ben Schneider’s voice careened off the walls of Fort Adams as if intended to soothe the aches of any hungover festival attendee trying to beat the heat. The band’s set was one of the most complete and musically intricate of the entire weekend. If you have a chance to see this band, do not turn it down.
Lumineers
Full disclosure, I’m not a huge fan of the Lumineers to begin with. There are only so many poppy folk bands that I can enjoy and The Head and the Heart got to me first. That said, the Lumineers were simply disappointing. Playing the same set they played when they swung through D.C. last year, the band seemed listless on giant fort stage. The crowd began to thin after the initial excitement of seeing the Lumineers, indie-folk darlings, died down. It might be a case of a band getting too big too fast or just that the Lumineers don’t know how to translate their debut album into a dance-worthy performance for upwards of 5,000 people. Whatever it was, I hope I wasn’t the only one who ditched their set and had my face melted at the Andrew Bird show in the quad instead.
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