TURF 2015: Day 2 Compendium - Concert Pictures

Day 2 of The Toronto Urban Roots Festival took place on September 19. Rain threatened and then followed through on the threat during The Strumbellas' set. It dampened us but not our spirits as the day continued with more of the fantastic music and festival atmosphere that we have grown to expect at TURF.

If you missed my individual posts, here's all of day two in one place.

Skydiggers

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

St. Paul and the Broken Bones

Cake

Rich Aucoin

Passenger

Choir! Choir! Choir!

Lucinda Williams

The Strumbellas

The River and The Road

The Elwins

Julian Taylor Band

In case you missed it, check out my Day 1 Compendium.

TURF 2015 Day 2: Passenger on the West Stage - Concert Pictures

Passenger is Michael David Rosenberg. He's an English folk singer-songwriter. I had heard good things about him before The Toronto Urban Roots Festival but frankly his quiet acoustic tunes didn't bring up my enthusiasm too much in the days leading up to the show. But it's a good thing to be wrong. And this is a fine example of why TURF is an amazing festival for turning people on to new artists and why live on stage is where many artists excel.

Passenger is highly entertaining and his songs come off very well live, especially given a very enthusiastic crowd that knows every word and isn't shy about singing along. His between-song banter is quite funny. He did tell us that we didn't have to be quiet. And he did tell us about how his pants were very tight.

Check out some tunes from his setlist.

"Fairytales and Firesides" is the first track here:

"Life's For the Living"

"David"

"I Hate"

"Let Her Go"

"Beautiful Birds"

"Holes"