SHELL YEAH! BENEFIT CONCERT SERIES
PRESENTED BY FEDEXFORUM
Dawes & Bahamas
September 23rd, 2022
General Admission - $37.50 | VIP Pod for 6 - $400
SHELL YEAH! IS A FUNDRAISING EVENT BENEFITING
THE OVERTON PARK SHELL
The Overton Park Shell is a non-profit organization presenting concerts free for all each year! Our mission is building a stronger Memphis community through music, finding common ground in a diverse audience. All proceeds from Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts directly support and power our Free Concert Series while keeping the mission of the Overton Park Shell accessible for all. General Admission tickets are $37.50, and a limited number of VIP Pods are available for $400 (which comes with 6 tickets and a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters).
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AN EVENING WITH DAWES & BAHAMAS:
An Evening with Dawes and Bahamas ‘Performing Together’ on a unique co-headline tour through the South & Midwest with a few points in between. This tour is Dawes & Bahamas collaborating all night long at every show. Dawes will back Bahamas during his set each night, and Bahamas will join Dawes for their set each night. There won’t be a support act. We’re presenting an evening of Dawes and Bahamas music in an alternative, never before seen or heard performance. There will be two sets separated by an intermission each night. We hope you join us.
Doors: 6:00pm
DAWES & BAHAMAS Set 1: 7:30-9:00pm
Intermission: 9:00-9:15pm
DAWES & BAHAMAS Set 2: 9:15-10:30pm
ABOUT DAWES:
MISADVENTURES OF DOOMSCROLLER, the 8th studio album from Dawes, represents an adventurous new turn for the band, evincing a more ambitious, exploratory approach towards recording than ever before. Produced by longtime collaborator Jonathan Wilson (Billy Strings, Father John Misty, Angel Olsen), the band shook their normal approach to record making and what you hear is the result.
Taylor Goldsmith, the band’s songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist describes the new album in this way: “We’ve always prided ourselves on being minimalists. With this record we set out on being MAXIMALISTS. Still a quartet. Still not letting these songs hide behind any tricks or effects. But really letting the songs breathe and stretch and live however they want to. We decided to stop having any regard for short attention spans. Our ambitions go beyond the musical with this one. Every time a take was completed felt like a major accomplishment. We wanted to honor the traditional length of a vinyl record – 40-45 minutes – but disregard any concern for numbers of tracks. The way Miles or Herbie often did. Documenting the songs is only half of the picture. For this record they’re also the platform for us to jump off from and get lost in. This whole album felt a little beyond our comfort zone and I’m really proud of what that’s done to the music. I think the best way I can say it is - we wanted this record to be less a collection of songs and more a collection of music.”
ABOUT BAHAMAS:
The fifth album from Bahamas, Sad Hunk takes its title from a nickname bestowed upon the artist by his wife in reaction to how he was being portrayed in the media, “Something like ten years ago I did a photo shoot, and in all the pictures they sent back, I was lit half in shadow, looking all brooding and mysterious,” says the award-winning singer/songwriter otherwise known as Afie Jurvanen. “When my wife saw the photos the first thing she said was, ‘Whoa—sad hunk,’ and after that it became sort of a joke among our friends.”
It’s a fitting backstory for an album that embodies an undaunted self-awareness, each track graced with Bahamas’s wry wit and unabashed heart. In sketching Sad Hunk’s delicately composed batch of songs, Jurvanen drew much inspiration from his home life and all the joy and struggle that comes with building a family together. Having recently moved to the coast of Nova Scotia with his wife and two daughters, the Ontario native inevitably imbued the album with his surroundings, even while committing to a sometimes-painful sincerity in his lyrics. “I definitely use music to work things out for myself,” says Jurvanen. “It’s possible I’m too open sometimes, but I really don’t know any better way to be. If I tried to just go write fun songs about hot dogs or something, I’d probably fail.”
For all its moments of heavy-hearted reflection, Sad Hunk ultimately channels a certain lightness, the pure elation in expressing what often goes unspoken. “You say things in songs that you’d never, ever say in conversation,” Jurvanen notes. “But it feels really good to say those things. I don’t know why telling people the most basic things you’re thinking is so hard sometimes, but it is. ”In sharing the album with the world, Jurvanen hopes that his songs might inspire others to embrace their own sad-hunk tendencies. “We’re all sad hunks—we’re all these broken beautiful human beings,” he says. “The idea that there’s only one way to live life is so backward. So instead of listening to the noise, just get in touch with what’s inside and find something you love to do, and then do it well. And don’t let yourself be hard. Just be soft. Be as soft with each other as you possibly can.”
A FEW SPECIAL NOTES ABOUT THIS EVENT:
Gates open at 6:00pm. Show at 7:30PM.
Tickets to this event are sold on Ticketmaster with $37.50 GA and $400 VIP Pods (6 tickets, a “charcuterie experience” from Memphis Grazing, and bottled waters). Only 15 Pods available. Food trucks will be on site and bars will be available for alcoholic and non-alcoholic purchases as well.
No outside food, drinks, coolers or pets are allowed at this event. Empty reusable water bottles may be brought in to fill up at our water fountains.
Overton Park Shell is an outdoor amphitheater with lawn seating. Please bring your own lawn chairs or blankets.
We ask that you pull up your Ticketmaster e-ticket on your phone before coming to the Overton Park Shell (or take a screenshot) as you are entering our 2 box offices.
Because this is a fundraiser, no refunds are available. Thank you for helping to power our FREE concert series!
Children 5 and under do not require a ticket.
Pets are not allowed at Shell Yeah! Benefit Concerts.
The Overton Park Shell is wheelchair accessible.
All entrants must have a ticket.
No professional photography, video, or audio recording equipment.
The Overton Park Shell will be 'passing the bucket' at the event if you are feeling generous!
More benefit concert dates: June 16, July 16, Sept 15, Sept 23.
Dance floor will be OPEN for the show.
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