Josh Ritter and The Swell Season, Paradiso, Feb 23

Last Tuesday I went to see Josh Ritter open for The Swell Season... It was a great, chill, fun, beautiful concert. I got there semi-early and nabbed a chair in the balcony. Josh Ritter was awesome, I haven't seen him live in awhile, but he loves playing in Amsterdam and is always so enthusiastic. I got chills during a couple of the songs, he was just so into it and enjoying it so much. Here is most of Harrisburg:



And then during The Swell Season, just so much went on, all sorts of getting the audience to sing or whistle and everyone was really into it, it was such a wonderful connection between the band and the audience. They played for over 2 hours, the encore was at least 5 songs, with Josh coming out back out for the whole band to play one of his songs. They ended with a Daniel Johnston song and the audience snapping and singing along. It was how shows should be.