Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) - Live in Dayton

700 East 4th Street,Dayton OH 45402

28 January, 2023

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DOORS OPEN AT 7, SHOW STARTS AT 8 GENERAL ADMISSION - FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED SEATING SPECIAL GUEST OPENER JONATHAN KINGHAM ABOUT THE VENUE Yellow Cab is a tavern formerly used by a taxi company but now home to one of Dayton's premiere gathering places! Located in Downtown Dayton right outside of the Historical Oregon District with a full bar offering craft brews from local breweries. FREE PARKING and event entry are located through the main gate on Walnut Street. ABOUT GLEN As lead singer and main songwriter of Toad the Wet Sprocket, Glen Phillips helped to create the band’s elegant folk/pop sound with honest, introspective lyrics that forged a close bond with their fans. When Toad went on hiatus, he launched a solo career and stayed busy between tours collaborating with other artists. “Until recently, I’ve seldom allowed myself to stay in one place for very long,” Phillips says, explaining the genesis of his new album, THERE IS SO MUCH HERE. “I was lucky during the Covid lockdown to move in with my girlfriend, now fiancée, and to stay home for the longest stretch I’ve had since the birth of my daughter, 20 years ago. I began noticing the little things. After a life of travel and seeking out peak experiences, I began to appreciate the subtle beauty of sitting still. Phillips’ previous solo record, SWALLOWED BY THE NEW, was about grief, a post-divorce outing while THERE IS SO MUCH HERE finds Phillips writing love songs again focusing on gratitude, beauty and staying present. “With this batch of songs, I was suddenly hopeful again, knowing you can never know what the outcome of any action, or inaction, is going to be. There’s no pure happy ending – the world is a mess, the future is uncertain – but I find found truth in the poet Mary Oliver’s words: ‘Attention is the beginning of devotion.’ I was suddenly in a state of being that wasn’t about my loss. I woke up and things felt doable again.” The 11 tracks on the album move between quiet love songs and outright rockers that consider the multi-faceted meanings hidden in our everyday lives. Ultimately, as Phillips reflects on the album, he shares: “This is an album about showing up for what is and letting it be enough.”