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Going ‘The Distance’: CAKE unfurled a full night of music at Meijer Gardens on Sunday. (Photo/Veronica Ann Dearborn)
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It’s been six years since CAKE final shared a night with a sold-out viewers at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. As vocalist and first lyricist John McCrea identified, that was “the before times” and a veritable lifetime previous — it’d as effectively have been a century in the past for all of the historical past and “interesting times” which have since handed.
But because the California pop/alt/rock/funk band demonstrated Sunday night time throughout its packed-to-capacity efficiency for the amphitheater’s well-liked summer time sequence, absence solely makes the center develop fonder.
The closely Gen-X-represented crowd adoringly lapped up the roughly two hours (20 songs) of fabric and a blissful, largely phone-free expertise (photographing or recording the present was strictly prohibited and enforced). This was a “civilized” night (McCrea’s descriptor) with the band, full with intermission, and no opener.
A 20-minute interlude featured the band’s trademark “tree giveaway,” throughout which McCrea awarded a cherry tree to super-fan Jolene, who mentioned she beforehand received a tree a few years in the past at one other CAKE present, making her the band’s first repeat tree winner. (You can monitor the “CAKE forest” on their web site to see the live performance giveaway bushes planted world wide, in case you’re craving some healthful content material.)
Even these followers who didn’t make the dendrology/arboreal minimize have been capable of take pleasure in a set packed filled with crowd-pleasing tracks, together with opener “Frank Sinatra,” “Sheep Go to Heaven,” “Love You Madly,” “Never There,” “Meanwhile, Rick James,,,” and present nearer “The Distance,” plus acquainted covers “I Will Survive” and the more-appropriate-than-ever “War Pigs.”
New monitor, “Billionaire in Space,” from a possibly-forthcoming (but-not-yet-formally-announced) album was one other apt-for-our-times providing, and reflective of the band’s “for the common man and the common good” political ethos. – By Tricia Boot Woolfenden
UP NEXT AT MEIJER GARDENS: Andy Grammer performs 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18. Tickets are $62-$64, out there online here.
PHOTO GALLERY: CAKE at Meijer Gardens
Photos by Veronica Ann Dearborn
Picturesque Ending: The scene at Belknap Park on Saturday night time. (Photo/Veronica Ann Dearborn)
With Friday night time proving to be one of many hottest Breakaway Music Festival occasions on document, the get together cloudy skies and lightweight drizzle on Saturday proved to be a tremendous respite from the earlier night.
While Breakaway has made enhancements yearly to date, this yr was clearly completely different in escalating their efforts. The Launch Pad stage in its second yr on the high of Belknap Park is without doubt one of the greatest concepts I’ve skilled at any competition, in that it’s separate from every thing else with room to maneuver whereas remaining intimate, and it additionally had a correct nightclub really feel to it. Worth noting, the brand new area activation towards the rear of the competition grounds offered a lot wanted extra room for meals distributors, with an immersive expertise from McDonald’s of all issues.
Mount Pleasant’s Delato kicked issues off on the Launch Pad stage with a maturity years past his age. While his fashion is someplace between bass home, progressive home, and tech home with with upwards of fifty% of the tacks performed being his personal productions, it proved to be the ‘right place at the right time’ effort each competition is relying on.
OMNON’s energetic and driving tech home had the Launch Pad transferring as one whereas the solar began to set, and Wax Motif introduced all of it residence together with his future-forward stylings by weaving seamlessly by acquainted vocals juxtaposed towards an underground home rhythm. (Wax Motif additionally performed the after present at The Intersection.)
Rezz closed all of it out after rain held off to offer attendees a stunning sundown and an exclamation level on Breakaway 2025. – By Todd Ernst
PHOTO GALLERY: Breakaway Music Festival Day 2
Intersection After-Party with Wax Motif
Photos by Eric Stoike (On the Run), Veronica Dearborn
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