It was pretty warm out all day leading up to the show, but by showtime it was absolutely perfect weather, for what would turn out to be a evening of great music.

Up first was local band Treehouse Sanctum who’s folky/Americana started the night off rapid fire going through a chunk of their songs. They had fair amount of instruments on stage to begin with including both and acoustic and electric guitar, bass, keys, drums, and trumpet. Later on in their set they would bring on an accordion player, and Dewayne the trumpeter swapped out for a harmonica.

A couple stand-out songs were “Pilot & Crew” a song about WWII, which had a nice touch of starting with a few bars of “Taps” and put their talent in full display. Speaking of talent, drummer Andrew wrote a song called “shabah” which is Hebrew for captivity (don’t give me too much credit I had to look up how to spell it) was a great instrumental song that he jumped up to keys to perform, Dewayne played a muted trumpet and one of their friends replaced Andrew on drums.

I had first heard of Humming House from another Nashville band *repeat repeat on their podcast (podcast) when they had Josh and Justin on the show back in May. Typically I’ll look up the bands they have on, but for whatever reason didn’t this time. (I must’ve been super busy with work, which is where i listen) A handful of months go by and here I am sitting on the lawn as Andy Thomas introduces them, and it kicks on a light that I’ve heard their name before!? So I look up past episodes, and wouldn’t you know it there they were! So what I failed to do months ago, was rectified in the best way possible… hearing them live!

On stage with keys, fiddle, mandolin, bass (upright one too), guitar and drums we got a great show of folk/Americana full of energy and soul and at some points feeling like a good ol’ hootenanny. A standout song for me was “I Want It All” which is a track off their forthcoming album Companion (To be clear though, there was a lot of a great songs)

One of the funniest parts of the night happened during the stage banter in which Justin asked if this was our first time at the Levitt, which brought about a smattering of applause. Then I can’t remember if it was before the next song or a couple after, Josh asks that the same question. To which Bobby says “Dude, Justin JUST asked that!’ Josh would then say “Sorry y’all I Don’t get to talk much on stage so I usually repeat what i heard last.” After the song ended Josh jokingly asked again if this was our first time at the Levitt, I was in stitches.

Had the opportunity to talk to them for a little bit afterward at the merch booth, where they were generous enough to sign their previous album for me.

Fantastic music by great people.