What gets me through December? Knowing that the week before Christmas I get to go to the Calling All Crows Benefit concert. For ten years I've been able to count on this show to give me that last burst of energy I need to get through the December Crazies. This year, there were actually three concerts (Friday, Saturday, and Tuesday night) at the Paradise Rock Club. The show has become so crazy popular that it's really hard to get tickets. Shout out to JO, who was on it and secured us tickets to Tuesday's show. This year's show was extra awesome because it featured Chad's old band Dispatch. Dispatch was this crazy popular band in the late 90s/early 2000s. When they played their last show on the Hatch Shell 110,000 people showed up for it. Since then the band has reunited a few times for new albums, tours, and special concerts at Madison Square Garden (they sold out the Garden two different years, three nights in a row, in a matter of ten minutes or so.) We were lucky enough to get to see them at MSG a few summers ago and it was amazing!
JO says the MSG show was slightly better but I think this show was their best. They played their entire new album straight through and then played at least ten more of their best songs. I'm a huge fan of their sing alongs and they played almost every single one of them. The concert ran late, and I had to get up early for school the next day, but that didn't matter at all! I know how lucky we were to be at that show!
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