From Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids, the concert train was rolling over the past week. Check out photos from Samantha Fish, Less Than Jake, Pajamas, Oberon Day and more.
Shining Night of Music: JJ Grey & Mofro at State Theatre. (Photo/Derek Ketchum)
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Fan Holly Martin called it one of the best concerts of the year.
Wednesday’s romp by Southern soul rock band JJ Grey & Mofro — with opening act Judith Hill — at Kalamazoo State Theatre pulled out all the stops, even though the frontman conceded at one point that he and most of his band had been ill.
“You could have fooled anyone in that audience because it didn’t show. They came to play, and play they did. That performance clearly exorcised the demons of illness right out of that place,” Martin told Local Spins.
“So much energy and so much good music. It truly felt like that band was fine-tuned to the energy in the audience, and there sure was some great, high-powered energy. Lots of love for them and they seemed to feel it.”
Thursday Blues-Rock: Samantha Fish at Elevation. (Photo/Eric Stoike)
Touring behind a new album, “Olustee,” the band is in the midst of an ambitious spring tour, with an overseas jaunt to Europe in June.
It wasn’t the only winning performance of the week.
Saranac pop-punk band Some People’s Kids came out on top during the finals of the Rebel Road Battle of the Bands on Saturday night at The Intersection, outpolling Stevie Reidz & Co., Klinical Trial, Future Things and Minus Two.
The band won the opportunity to open for Texas Hippie Coalition at the Rebel Road motorcycle rally taking place in Muskegon July 17-21
(Grand Rapids’ Squatch, meanwhile, won The Stray’s month-long battle of the bands on Saturday. Check out Local Spins’ coverage and photos here.)
Beyond that, check out photos below of Bell’s Brewery’s Oberon Day in Kalamazoo with Kait Rose and band, Pajamas and Bunkerman playing Bell’s, Samantha Fish at The Intersection’s Elevation and Less Than Jake at The Intersection.
(Sad note from the Less Than Jake show: A concertgoer collapsed and passed away near the end of the show, with police scanner reports noting that bystanders attempted CPR before emergency crews arrived.)
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PHOTO GALLERY: JJ Grey & Mofro, Judith Hill at Kalamazoo State Theatre
Photos by Derek Ketchum
Photos by Eric Stoike
Photos by Eric Stoike
