Stylistically diverse and capable of charming nearly any crowd (last month he was welcomed at Rocky Mountain Folks Festival), Portland’s M. Ward played his afternoon set at Monolith Festival.
He kicked things off with Sad, Sad, Song before his band joined him onstage. They continued on playing Chinese Translation. The rest of his hour set included Poison Cup, Fool Says and ended with Roll Over Beethoven.
Do you know the names of his band mates on this day? I don’t think it was the Monsters of Folk?
Lewis, you know, I didn’t catch who he was playing with but it wasn’t the Monsters of Folk (Conor Oberst, Jim James and Mike Mogis).