Friday, September 23, 2022

Straight No Chaser – Maryland Theatre (Hagerstown), 9/20/2022

Row N, Seats 301-302 – left-hand section, 13 rows back, on the aisle. Sightlines and sound were both excellent.

 

It’s been over four years since the last time we saw SNC, but the ensemble certainly hasn’t lost its touch. I’m surprised they’ve never put out a live DVD – while I enjoy listening to the one CD of theirs that I own, you miss a lot without the choreography, background screen imagery, and general craziness of their live shows. As usual, their musical timeline was quite long, going as far back as Sam Cooke’s “Twistin’ The Night Away” and extending all the way up to Dua Lipa’s “Levitating”, which still gets plenty of airplay on Top 40 radio stations. It was a particularly big evening for Bill Withers fans, as their first set included both “Lovely Day” and a medley of “Use Me” and “Ain’t No Sunshine”. I even enjoyed their take on a couple of songs (“Fix You” and “Shut Up and Dance”) that I don’t especially like.

 

Highlights:

Movie Theme Medley (just prior to intermission)

Proud Mary (just after intermission)

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Lovely Day

Closing Time (their current mic-free encore)

 

Setlist

 

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