I had mentioned on twitter a little over a week ago that I was attending the Matisyahu concert. It was the first show of his “Festival of Lights” tour for 2010. The show was right before Chanukah thus the “Festival of Lights” name for the tour. This was the first concert that I can remember attending since I was dragged to a Peter, Paul and Mary concert by my mother.
The concert was at the Brooklyn Bowl which is a bowling alley in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. It was converted from an old factory and they have so much space there that they were able to have a place for concerts that holds 600 people. When you hear about it the places seems to be a little odd to have a concert, but it works quite well. The sad thing is that the food there wasn’t Kosher so I had to eat before hand.
The concert was good and entertaining althoguh the opening act, Dub Trio, didn’t seem to go well with music that Matisyahu plays. I guess since they were his back up band and local it made sense for them to open. Matisyahu was typical Matisyahu he did seem to a lot of energy performing almost non stop for over two hours. In fact, the only time he took a break to talk to the crowd was to introduce his new song “Miracle” which is about Chanukah (you can see the video here).
It was a very interesting mix of people in the crowd. You had your Observant Jews and you had your hipsters. You even had Observant Jews that were hipsters. Seeing the crowd got me thinking about why the hipsters like Matisyahu as a performer? His songs are mostly, if not all, of a religious bend and they don’t seem to be the type of people to link that kind of thing. I don’t have an answer to that question, but it’s an interesting question to ponder.
I really did enjoy the concert and had a good time there. If you are able to see him perform live it’s a lot of fun. He has a lot of energy on stage.
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