{"id":798179,"date":"2019-08-01T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/music-scene-lake-street-dive-kicks-off-a-week-of-local-music\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:32:00","slug":"music-scene-lake-street-dive-kicks-off-a-week-of-local-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/music-scene-lake-street-dive-kicks-off-a-week-of-local-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Scene: Lake Street Dive kicks off a week of local music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.8684020245842\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-369410-196\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Shervin Lainez | Rock band Lake Street Dive will perform at the Dillon Amphitheater at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. Opening for the group is singer-songwriter Yola. Visit DillonAmphitheater.com to purchase tickets.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Rock band Lake Street Dive will perform at the Dillon Amphitheater at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. Opening for the group is singer-songwriter Yola. Visit DillonAmphitheater.com to purchase tickets.<\/strong><br \/>Shervin Lainez<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rock band Lake Street Dive will perform at the Dillon Amphitheater at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. Opening for the group is singer-songwriter Yola. Visit DillonAmphitheater.com to purchase tickets.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Breckenridge Music | Jayme Stone\u2019s Folklife and special guest Bonnie Paine, founding member of Elephant Revival, join forces with the Festival Orchestra to tap into the deep aquifer of American folk music Saturday, Aug. 3 at Riverwalk Center. Visit BreckMusic.org to purchase tickets.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"12\">\n<p><strong>Jayme Stone\u2019s Folklife and special guest Bonnie Paine, founding member of Elephant Revival, join forces with the Festival Orchestra to tap into the deep aquifer of American folk music Saturday, Aug. 3 at Riverwalk Center. Visit BreckMusic.org to purchase tickets.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Breckenridge Music<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jayme Stone\u2019s Folklife and special guest Bonnie Paine, founding member of Elephant Revival, join forces with the Festival Orchestra to tap into the deep aquifer of American folk music Saturday, Aug. 3 at Riverwalk Center. Visit BreckMusic.org to purchase tickets.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Peter Simon | Concert pianist and Colorado native Peter Simon will be performing at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. Tickets cost $10 for students, $20 for adults and can be purchased at the door.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Concert pianist and Colorado native Peter Simon will be performing at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. Tickets cost $10 for students, $20 for adults and can be purchased at the door.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Peter Simon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Concert pianist and Colorado native Peter Simon will be performing at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. Tickets cost $10 for students, $20 for adults and can be purchased at the door.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-3.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Red Light Management | Known for his compelling original compositions as well as his arrangements of cover songs, renowned acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke returns to the Riverwalk Center at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. Visit BreckMusic.org to purchase tickets.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"0\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"11\">\n<p><strong>Known for his compelling original compositions as well as his arrangements of cover songs, renowned acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke returns to the Riverwalk Center at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. Visit BreckMusic.org to purchase tickets.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Red Light Management<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-3.jpg\" alt=\"Known for his compelling original compositions as well as his arrangements of cover songs, renowned acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke returns to the Riverwalk Center at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4. Visit BreckMusic.org to purchase tickets.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-4-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-4.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Opal Agafia &amp; The Sweet Nothings | Drawing from many genres, Opal Agafia &amp; The Sweet Nothings blends the best elements of soul, blues, jazz, gospel, country, swing and traditional mountain music into a sound that captures the past and boldly pushes ahead. The band performs for free at 5:30 p.m. at the Frisco Historic Park on Thursday, Aug. 8.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"3\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"17\">\n<p><strong>Drawing from many genres, Opal Agafia &amp; The Sweet Nothings blends the best elements of soul, blues, jazz, gospel, country, swing and traditional mountain music into a sound that captures the past and boldly pushes ahead. The band performs for free at 5:30 p.m. at the Frisco Historic Park on Thursday, Aug. 8.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Opal Agafia &amp; The Sweet Nothings<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/MusicScene-ESW-080219-1-4.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing from many genres, Opal Agafia &amp; The Sweet Nothings blends the best elements of soul, blues, jazz, gospel, country, swing and traditional mountain music into a sound that captures the past and boldly pushes ahead. The band performs for free at 5:30 p.m. at the Frisco Historic Park on Thursday, Aug. 8.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/music-scene-lake-street-dive-kicks-off-a-week-of-local-music\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/music-scene-lake-street-dive-kicks-off-a-week-of-local-music\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">For nearly all of Lake Street Dive\u2019s 15-year history, the group stubbornly refused to bring on any additional musicians to help recreate some of the sounds the band had incorporated into the studio versions of its songs, but could not replicate live with just four band members on stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But that thinking went out the window (and onto the stage) in 2017 after the group gave performing with keyboardist Akie Bermiss a try. Guitarist\/trumpet player Mike \u201cMcDuck\u201d Olson, singer Rachel Price, bassist Bridget Kearney and drummer Mike Calabrese found they got much more than a more faithful representation of their songs with Bermiss in the fold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI think that our past selves sides would have denied up and down that we would ever have considered adding another member,\u201d Olson acknowledged in a recent phone interview. \u201cBut we have whole-heartedly embraced Akie Bermiss as sort of the fifth member of the band as a keyboard player. Last year, he was on right around two-thirds of the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe spent a great deal of time (in the past) being OK, well, let\u2019s see what am I doing? I\u2019m playing guitar, and I\u2019m singing, and then I\u2019m going to whistle into the microphone a part that somebody had played on the mellotron, and then I have to double this part,\u201d he said. \u201cThat challenge was very exciting for a long time and, I think, a natural thing for a group of people who attended a music conservatory.\u201d (The band members met at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cMusic is supposed to be something of an athletic pursuit,\u201d Olson said. \u201cIf you\u2019re not sweating, are you really playing? That\u2019s sort of the conservatory mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Freed from having to figure out which band member would have to play certain keyboard parts either in tandem with their regular instrument or in place of their instrument, Lake Street Dive found their overall sound enhanced with Bermiss handling keyboards. For Olson, it also allowed him to expand the role of guitar beyond being the primary melodic and tonal instrument in the group\u2019s live sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI\u2019m basically, I\u2019m the only thing defining the tonality of a song. I\u2019m the only thing with more than one note going at any time, so everybody is using me to tune to,\u201d Olson said. \u201cSo there are all these, like, checks on the list that I needed to do before I could even think about what I\u2019m playing from a creative standpoint. But with Akie there, now all of a sudden, OK, now I can play a little bit of lead (at times). Now we\u2019re constructing these sort of very idiosyncratic key guitar parts that come from records that we know and love so much. Now we\u2019re not fighting with the music, we\u2019re dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In fact, the band members liked what Bermiss did so much in the shows, they brought him in to play throughout their latest album, \u201cFree Yourself Up,\u201d and were further delighted by the impact the keyboardist\u2019s playing had on the Lake Street Dive sound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe found that we played a lot differently when there was a live piano player involved,\u201d Olson said. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting, and it\u2019s inspiring from a musical standpoint, and I think the (live) show is elevated musically just from the kind of tasty musical elements that Akie contributes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cFree Yourself Up\u201d still sounds very much like Lake Street Dive, but there are some significant new wrinkles in the music. The band has stretched out a bit stylistically, retaining the hooky pop melodies, good-time feel and the jazzy and soulful elements that have been laced through the group\u2019s five previous studio albums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But the sound is a bit fuller and rocks a bit more. This is especially true of \u201cDude,\u201d a standout funky track with a groove that\u2019s matched by the catchy chorus. Other songs get extra jolts of energy, as well. On \u201cBaby, Don\u2019t Leave Me Along with My Thoughts,\u201d a riffy change of pace part adds some grit to the song, while \u201cYou Are Free\u201d gets some similar riffage to go with its buoyant melody. And Bermiss makes his presence felt throughout the album, for example, spicing up \u201cRed Light Kisses\u201d with what sounds like clavinet and B-3 organ and weaving in synthesizer in \u201cDoesn\u2019t Even Matter Now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Olson said the group is pleased enough with \u201cFree Yourself Up\u201d that a good chunk of the new material was getting included in the band\u2019s live show as soon as the album was released in May 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We were \u201cshowcasing a lot of new material right off of the bat, interspersed, obviously, liberally with more known material,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019re lengthening the show, as well. So it\u2019s going to be a little bit of a longer show, which will ensure that we can play as much of the new record as possible but also make sure we play the hits, as it were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/music-scene-lake-street-dive-kicks-off-a-week-of-local-music\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock band Lake Street Dive will perform at the Dillon Amphitheater at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3. Opening for the group is singer-songwriter Yola. 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