Ray LaMontagne Tickets
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Overall Rating
3.2
By lahlahlou
Neko was the gem here!
Neko Case was amazing and I’d have rather watched her play longer, than listened to Ray LaMontagne and his band play a jam session. I was a bit disappointed that he played everything that I did NOT know. Neko was fantastic and the venue was killer on a perfect summer night!
By Oliviasdad123
Good - But NONE of the HITS - :(
We love Ray...he's an extremely talented musician, with an excellent band that can really rock it. However, it may be our lack of knowledge of his song catalog, but the entire show didn't include ANY..not one, top 40 hit, from whatever chart he would be on. We found that notion to be of great surprise to us.
By LowerCaseg
Great time - great place to see a concert!
Had a great time Friday night at this concert - Breese Stevens Field is an amazing place to see a concert! Will be back for sure!
By LoyalO3
Disappointed in set list
Band was great, Ray sounded real good but he did not play any of the four songs I and the folks around me came to hear. Jolene, For the summer, beg borrow or steal and Trouble. That is why I gave 3 stars. I will say there were a couple of songs I never heard before that really rocked.
By Honeytoast
Ho Hum
Loved Rays voice and loved the venue but he just didn’t seem into it. He just wanted to play and get out. Didn’t interact with the crowd. Just kinda boring.
By Anonymous
The volume could have been higher for Neko Case. She was hard to hear. It was better for Ray. I've seen Ray twice in three years and he doesn't play his older hits, which is disappointing. I would be nice if he would throw one or two of those songs into his set list. This was our first time at the venue. It is a nice size (not too large) and had easy access to concessions and restrooms. I would go to another event there.
By MTeebs
Not the best show I’ve seen.
Great artist, great voice, but was disappointed that he didn’t play any of his well known songs.
By MCHC25
Disappointing
The show just wasn't what I was expecting. He did not play any of his classics - just new stuff - which was disappointing. Stayed after the show because I didn't believe that was really it given the set he played. Venue itself was terrific though.
By stouthibernian
Ray LaMontange not Ray LaMontange
I have most of Ray's catalogue but in many ways the entire concert was unrecognizable--and not in a great way. The two long closing numbers seemed more designed to meet a contractual commitment to play 90 minutes than they were designed to please the crowd, display instrumental prowess or sell a new LP. The sound engineer/ or company had a set up that seemed adequate for a venue 1/4 of the size. The monitors that were supposed to augment the concert clearly did not consider the brightness of a summer evening with the screens facing west. The visual effects were also perplexing. I say this as a long time Ray fan, but if you were not a fan prior to the concert, you would have left a fan a Neko Case but not Ray I am sorry to say. I get that as an artist it is important to push artistic boundaries to remain relevant, but I am not so sure that you can succeed at the expense of the fans who have travelled hundreds of miles, spent hundreds to attend, and then were reward with a performance that from our seats seemed like a perfunctory exercise to satisfy a contract. I left scratching my head as did most people sitting near us.
By Anonymous
I didn't know a single song performed and I thought I was a big fan. I wish he played a few hits.
Bio
Join Ray LaMontagne on the Trouble 20th Anniversary Tour.
Ray's vast catalog spans nine full length records, chart topping radio singles, and a Grammy win, in addition to multiple Grammy nominations. This year will prove to be an exciting one for LaMontagne as he heads out on the road celebrating his first full length album, Trouble, playing the album in its entirety as well as songs from across his catalog.
Of this landmark anniversary, LaMontagne has written the following personal note to his fans:
As many of you know, last September was the 20th anniversary of the release of Trouble. Twenty years. Two Decades. That's a lot of water under the bridge. Every cell in my body has changed three times over in that time. I have been three times reborn.
There are moments in your life when you need to place a marker. Some people think that it is brave, or fearless, to never look back. I don't believe that. For the simple reason that if you never look back you will never see how far you have come. This year I place a sign post: twenty years of Trouble.
When Trouble was initially released Vinyl was considered a dead format, never to breathe again Digital audio was the new King. As we know this has proved untrue. Each year more and more music lovers are listening to Vinyl and appreciating it for its depth and breadth of sound, for its physical heft, for its tangible realness. Over the past few months Brian Lee and Bob Jackson at Waygate Mastering have remastered the album for the first time specifically for Vinyl. And I have to say, it sounds incredible. They have managed to bring out subtleties in the vocals, the instrumentation, that were somehow lost previously. It sounds as if a sonic veil has been lifted. I cannot thank them enough.
To further honor this moment I will be hitting the road later this summer for the Trouble 20th Anniversary Tour, playing the album top to tail for the first time since it was released. I hope you will come out and join me and my friends and help us celebrate this moment in time. It wouldn't be the same without you.