Artist abused virtuous improvisations and invited Brazilian musician to the festival stage
Dave Matthews Band closed the first night of the festival Best of Blues and Rock 2025held at the Ibirapuera Auditorium in São Paulo last Saturday (7). With tireless rhythm and squandering musicality with the extensive band, mixing ropes, keys and breath, the frontman He danced during the more than two hours of presentation, wielding his guitars throughout the period.
Saturday’s show had a 13 -minute delay, which was released by the fans, who filled the lawn of the Ibirapuera Auditorium, right in the first song, ‘Don’t Drink The Water’ (1998), which in addition to the accelerated version in execution, was extended for more than ten minutes, with dynamics involving each part of the band individually.
After the third song, the singer thanked the public for their reception for learning his native language to understand him and still risked a “thank you” in Portuguese. Local reception printed Brazilianness in the arrangements, with the drummer Carter Beauford pulling typical beats during virtuous improvisations.
In the song ‘What Would You Say’from the album UNDER THE TABLE AND DREAMING (1994), the Brazilian bookkeeper Gabriel Grossi He was invited to the stage by the band. Longtime friends, Dave Matthews He presented him and also led the artist Tupiniquim to an extensive solo, which was celebrated by the audience.
Upon returning to the bis, Dave Matthews He assumed the guitar without his colleagues, saying in Portuguese: “I wish you love, peace and happiness”completing the message with an acoustic version of ‘Peace on Earth’, a song not yet recorded in the studio that questions wars that “They seek peace killing people”.
It was not the first time in the state capital, having passed, in 2013, the Summer Break Festival SP and, in 2019, through the Itaipava Sun. This time, in double, the Americans perform again this Sunday (8), with Soul Lee and Paula Lima interpreting songs from Rita Lee and Red baron at the opening.
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