The Lumineers
Arena @ Mohegan Sun Casino
Uncasville, CT
March 16, 2017
Cleopatra Tour 2017
Susto & Kaleo opened
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Source info:
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Taper: Ringfedder
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Setlist:
01. Submarines
02. Flowers in Your Hair
03. Ho Hey
04. Cleopatra
05. Gun Song
06. Dead Sea
07. Classy Girls
08. Where the Skies Are Blue
09. Charlie Boy
10. Slow It Down
11. Sleep on the Floor
12. Angela
13. Ophelia
14. Big Parade
15. Walls
16. My Eyes
17. Patience
Encore:
18. Long Way From Home
19. Subterranean Homesick Blues
20. Stubborn Love
Songs 7-10 performed on B-stage in center rear floor
The Band:
Wesley Schultz - guitar, piano, vocals
Jeremiah Fraites - drums, percussion, piano, mandolin, vocals
Neyla Pekarek - cello, vocals
Stelth Ulvang - piano, accordion, mandolink, guitar, percussion, vocals
Byron Isaacs - bass, guitar, vocals
Brandon Miller - guitar, percussion
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Enjoy!
Review By Donnie Moorhouse | http://www.masslive.com
on March 17, 2017 at 1:37 AM, updated March 17, 2017 at 9:43 AM
The Lumineers headlined the Mohegan Sun Arena on Thursday night performing a 20-song set in front of a sold out crowd.
The band is a year into its tour supporting the 2016 release "Cleopatra," just the second album in its catalog after the 2012 self-titled debut.
The 90-minute set opened with lead singer Wesley Schultz on the piano, banging out the opening to "Submarine" before the band joined the fray. It was a six-piece ensemble featuring the core of Schultz, drummer Jeremiah Fraites, and cellist Neyla Pekarek.
True to its Americana pedigree, the Lumineers pushed acoustic guitars, accordions, and assorted percussion out into the arena and somehow made the simple seem grand.
The group managed to take the sparse instrumentation and scale it to arena-size without losing the intimacy of its songs.
The title track from the new release was an early highlight as "Cleopatra" came off with the same combination of street-sense and innocence as 60s folk and doo-wop.
Schulz occasionally told stories to introduce the songs and spoke on two separate occasions about the passing of his father (who he called his hero) and its impact on his own life.
The stories added weight to songs "The Gun Song," and "Long Way Home."
He also remarked on both the size of the room and crowd.
"This is a lot of people for us to be playing to," he said. "The last time we were in Connecticut we played Stage One not too far from here."
Stage One is a small theater in Fairfield.
To compensate for the expansive space, the band trekked out to a smaller stage at the center of the arena for an acoustic mini-set which included songs "Charlie Boy," and "Where the Skies Are Blue."
The band kicked in for "Ophelia" and added Celtic undertones to "Big Parade."
The set included two covers, both impeccably rendered. Tom Petty's "The Wall" anchored the main set while Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was the highlight of the three song encore.
Sandwiched between the headliner and opener Susto was a 40-minute whirlwind of a set from Icelandic rock band Kaleo. With a sound anchored in early blues rock, Kaleo started slow before putting a charge in the room with songs "All the Pretty Girls," and "Rock and Roller," and kicking out a jam that somehow managed to simultaneously recall The Who's "My Generation" and The Allman Brothers' "One Way Out."