The Mountain Goats (solo)

ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks,Bethlehem PA 18015

27 June, 2021

Description

The Mountain Goats (solo) Musikfest Cafe presented by Yuengling ALL AGES The Mountain Goats The Mountain Goats (solo) John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats My name is John Darnielle. When the wizard who dwells in the invisible castle by the sea dies I am next in line. Words, guitar and Fender Rhodes for the Mountain Goats. Author of Wolf in White Van, Master of Reality, and Universal Harvester. — A couple of years ago I played two solo sets at Swedish American in San Francisco that felt really special — the kind of show where the audience and I meet somewhere in the middle of the music I’m playing and something new happens in that in-between space, and when you remember it later, what you remember is that special energy, the flow, a sort of mystic mood that’s hard to describe without waxing all new-age about it so you just give up and fully indulge the sacred crystal synchronicity kinda mood. I hope I can do some shows there again before too long.” And all that’s true: that’s the dynamic I’m talking about, except that it wasn’t a couple of years ago: it was three, and two other shows at the same venue that had a similar vibe were ten years ago. Time gets away from you if you’re not careful. Everybody’s had this feeling. So instead of wondering why I never got around to revisiting the scenes of some of the really special shows I’ve been fortunate enough to play over the [mumbles vaguely number-sounding syllables into hand] years I’ve been doing this, I’m going to chart a course. Once a year I’m going to return to someplace where one of those everybody-gets-altitude shows happened somewhere along the line, and I’ll play two or three nights there. When it’s possible to revisit the same venue, I’ll do that. I probably won’t be recreating the sets from those shows, because I feel like that’d be not-the-good-kind-of-weird weird, but then again, what about the time I played thirty-two songs in a set at the Olde Club in Swarthmore about a year before Tallahassee came out? What if I just did all those songs again? Anyway, that’s a question for a future date. The right thing to do is to kick this off in San Francisco, the first city Rachel & I ever played outside of the southern California, the place that boasted the first record store I know of to stock my tapes — the legendary Aquarius Records. These will be solo shows, but if I think of guests who’d be fun, there might be guests. I’ll do it at Swedish American again, because the memory of those solo sets is incredibly sweet to me. And then, after that, next year, we’ll see where it goes. To ensure our patrons’ safety and comfort, ArtsQuest is instituting mandatory temperature checks for anyone entering the ArtsQuest Center, effective immediately. Patrons will be required to register a temperature below 100.4 to gain access to the building. For complete details please click here PLEASE NOTE: Standard Box Office Fees Apply. There is also a City of Bethlehem 5% Amusement Tax, up to $2 per ticket, for tickets to this show. ALL SALES FINAL. No exchanges, no refunds. For a full description of our Ticketing Policy click here The Mountain Goats