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UPDATE:
The Band of Horses show has been rescheduled to Tuesday, September 17th at the State Theatre of Ithaca. All tickets will be honored for the new date. If you are unable to make the rescheduled date, refunds are available by contacting the State Theatre Box Office at [email protected]. Deadline for refunds is Tuesday, June 11th at 5pm.
DSP Shows and The State Theatre of Ithaca Present:
Band of Horses
Tuesday, September 17th, 2024
7:00pm Doors, 8:00pm Showtime
There might be no other band that was able to channel the generational anxiety in those early millennial years and turn it into such powerful and inclusive art quite like Band of Horses. Band of Horses fashioned gorgeously ragged epics, Ben Bridwell’s high-flying vocals and eccentric enunciation floating like a specter that felt like a prelude to a dream. Full of profundity, truth, and sometimes just homespun advice on how to live, Band of Horses songs have become anthems and touchstones for fans. Emotionally intense, both on a personal and elemental level, the songs for Band of Horses’ sixth album, Things Are Great, finds Bridwell more autobiographical than he’s ever been on record, detailing the nebulous frustrations and quiet indignities of relationship changes and what a person will do to make things right. And what you do when you can’t. Band of Horses is composed of Bridwell, longtime members Ryan Monroe and Creighton Barrett and new members Matt Gentling (of Archers of Loaf) on bass, and guitarist Brett Nash. This fresh chapter finds the band recapturing the raw emotion and unpolished punk-rock spirit of its early days. The songs on Things Are Great document the connections in Bridwell’s life that have shifted, or remained. An epic album, Things Are Great is not an exercise in nostalgia or regret. It’s closer to the classic pattern of the hero’s journey, one where Bridwell doesn’t locate those elusive answers but does find himself in the end, providing hope that all of us can do the same.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
State Theatre of Ithaca, 117 W State St, Ithaca, NY 14850, United States,Ithaca, New York
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