The Revival Tour, for those who don't know, is an acoustic collaborative folk music event, founded and created by Chuck Ragan, of Hot Water Music. He brings friends and fellow punk-come-acoustic-folk artists along on tour. But they don't simply play their own sets, they all play together, covering each others songs, and playing for the whole time with no intervals.
"Despite the caliber of the musicians traveling alongside him, the Revival Tour is a place where camaraderie overflows. “There’s no hierarchy; it’s about sharing music together and bringing it to people in an extremely honest and grassroots fashion,” he explains, adding that the musicians on the tour all open the show together, join each other throughout the event and close it with a grand finale all together again. “It’s apparent that simple songs of folk music has been rising in popularity and it’s a joy to bring known artists that people already love but very important to us to expose lesser known artists to the world who play exemplary music and live by ethics we admire whether they’re solo musicians, groups or a singer of a band." - The Revival Tour
For the 2011 UK/Europe Revival Tour, Chuck brought Dave Hause of The Loved Ones, Dan Andriano of Alkaline Trio and Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem along with him.
The show started at 7.30 sharp and continued until 11pm, with a non-stop energy from all of the musicians. As well as Chuck, Dave, Dan and Brian, Jon Gaunt (fiddle) and Joe Ginsberg (bass) also played a key part in the performance.
To get an idea of what the show was like, here's some of my (terrible) photographs.
Brian Fallon
Brian and Chuck
Dave Hause
Joe Ginsberg
And a video courtesy of the marvelous Ben Morse, all members of the The Revival Tour play The Gaslight Anthem's '59 Sound.
The Revival Tour is highly recommended by me to basically all fans of live music.
It's a show like no other.
It's a show like no other.
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