The rock band Mumford & Sons-consisting of the four main members Marcus Mumford, Winston Marshall, Ben Lovett, and Twed Dwan-preformed an amazing show at the CHI Health Center on October 26.
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and grammy winner Sierra Ferrell opened for the band. She played songs from her album Trail of Flowers such as “Lighthouse”, “American Dreaming”, and “Fox Hunt.” She also played an unreleased song called “Dusty Foot.”
The band started performing at 9:00-walking in on a dark stage, progressively getting lighter with blue and yellow-white lights, playing “Run Together;” which was followed by “Babel.”
They followed that up with a song from their new album “Rushmere.” During the song is when tiers of metal cages came down from the ceiling with details of doves, stars, and hearts, and would light up at such parts in the song like “Light me up, I’m wasted in the dark.”
Throughout the night they played more songs from their past and recent albums. Including “Little Lion Man,” “Believe,” and from their recent album: “Truth.”
The band left the stage where they ran down to the middle of the arena to a smaller stage to play songs like “Caroline” from their recent album. They invited Sierra Ferrell to join them to play a “Townes Van Zandt” cover.
They returned back to the stage; but later in the concert the lead singer Marcus Mumford ran through the crowd, up the stairs in our section 112, up another set of stairs and was singing on the balcony sections, before running all the way back to the stage.
They ended the show, but the crowd kept cheering for an encore. Eventually they came back out to sing songs such as “Awake My Soul,” “I Will Wait,” and they ended the show with “A Conversation With My Son, Gangsters, and Angels.”
It was a surreal experience, many people say they sound amazing live and it’s true. They turned the volume way up; you could hear the music in your brain, and you could feel the beat through your body. The stage itself was amazing; it had tiers which allowed the four main members to be on the middle tier and Mumford to jump to the bottom, and some of the instrumentalists to be on the top. The effects were well done, the lights were bright and in sync, and the added touch of fire coming up from the stage added to the experience.
It was truly a great performance and it was amazing to get to see them play live. My only complaint was that they did not play more songs from their new album, but then again they hadn’t been in Omaha for a while and had to play their classic songs.
