The Lumineers are a folk-rock band that were not familiar to me before I met Conrad Brits, yet they are so well-known that their Thursday night concert, which was to be a once-off, was extended to Friday too. People LOVE this band and I couldn't understand why.
Conrad had let me listen to some of their music in the hopes that I'd fall desperately and hopelessly in love and I think he succeeded, as on the night, I realized I knew more songs than the one I claimed to semi-know. I'm a lover of Mumford & Sons and more specifically, The Kongos, so folk-rock isn't a genre that I am not use to. When these gents and lass walked on stage, the crowd which had me blown away by its size, stood up and lunged towards the stage with excitement and day-drunkness fueling their veins. I, on the other hand, casually stood up and waited.
Wow.
I must admit, that The Lumineers have converted me and I am now a proud owner of a new band I can add to my 'Band-Love List'. They are vibrant on stage, the number of instruments they use throughout their set was incredible and definitely one of the highlights of the night, the fact that they were on stage barefoot helped their cause a lot and two absolute favourite's were:
- When lead singer, Wesley Schultz, jumped off the stage and merrily made his way through the crowd to the center of his audience and he began to play with the people who adore him.
- When Jeremiah Fraites climbed atop his antique looking piano and starting shaking his tambourine around whilst doing little twirls on his "mini-balancing board".
Needless to say, I had to rush to the front and snap as many photo's as I could (not just for myself, but for Conrad (he is, after all, the man who introduced me to this new love) as he is very much a fan of this group) and at the end of the day, this is what was captured:
