Show 17.
Avett Brothers at Oriole Park was an interesting night. I got there early at around 4PM because I am concert poster freak and the poster for this post-game show was an homage to the Billy Ripken "Fuck Face" error card.
Game started ontime at 5:05PM and there were 2 or 3 innings before the rain came.
We had seats under cover in the front row of section 69 (Nice!). The game went on without delay, and we moved and sat deeper under cover to avoid the rain.
Ultimately, the game went to "overtime" as a friend in attendance said, and the Orioles beat the hideous and evil NYY by around 9:15 PM.
But the rain kept on, and they didn't start putting the onfield stage together until around 9:50PM. Once the stage was assembled, they let those of us with onfield passes onto the infield to watch the show. We stood between 2nd and 3rd. It was pretty cool to be on the infield dirt. I have been to stadium shows before, but always on top of some sort of field cover in the outfield.
The show didn't start until 10:30 or so, when the opener, a country singer named Carter Faith played 4 songs. She was fine(?) but we all thought this would be a good time to skip an opener....Then the Avetts came out at 10:58.
Avetts sounded great and the crowd was exuberant. We made it to song 11 out of what turned out to be a 17 song set, when we left at 11:50PM.
Interesting night, not sure I will mix baseballl and music again due to the uncertainty of the duration of a baseball game.
