Mercury Ballroom, Louisville KY, 02/18/2016

Managed to get right by the stage. I think I cried the entire time, and I am not the least bit embarrassed about it. Papadosio really does work some kind of magic. A building full of people there for exactly the same reason, sweating, crying, dancing, celebrating being alive. It was beautiful and unafraid and powerful and there was more love and energy coming from the people in attendance, and from the music, than I knew how to process. I am so glad to have been a part of it.

I don't have adequate words. Their studio recordings saved my life, but their live shows pull out the parts of us that we don't even know are hurting, and when the roaring and dancing slows and the house lights come up, everyone leaves sweaty and shaking and laughing and grateful for this little pocket of warm soul medicine.

I am beyond grateful, and I will not wait another two years to do this again.