The Revivalists

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Frog Alley Brewing Company Presents The Revivalists!
This is a 21+ show.

Doors: 5:30
Show Time Schedule: TBA

The Revivalists have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to Rev Causes, a fund that supports the essential work of organizations dedicated to reviving and investing in our communities, our health, and our environment. By allocating a portion of our ticket sales, and through fan donations and a variety of fundraising efforts, we aim to assist these exciting organizations in building a better future.

For a long time, The Revivalists have been embraced as a good-times band, their swirl of indie
rock, soul, folk, and even a dash of hip-hop serving a soundtrack to many summer nights. Their
story, after all, has been one of youthful triumph, with a chance encounter between singer David
Shaw and guitarist Zack Feinberg steadily leading to an octet that rose from the dingiest dives to
the grandest American concert halls and amphitheaters. With PJ Howard and Andrew
Campanelli, they are a two-drummer powerhouse anchored by bassist George Gekas and buoyed
by horn man Rob Ingraham, keyboardist Michael Girardot, and pedal steel guitarist Ed Williams.
But all eight members are now firmly into adulthood, with seven of them fathers. Enter Get It
Honest, their sixth and most affecting album, a true grown-folks record built on songs about
cutting yourself clear of a past that only drags you down and embracing the parts of your present
that make you grateful to be here at all, like love and grace and salvation.

Let’s rewind, then, to the title track, the moment when Get It Honest truly began: When Shaw
finally woke up for real one morning in early 2023, he barely remembered the words he’d jotted
down sometime around 3 a.m. For more than a dozen years, The Revivalists singer had brought a
workmanlike tenacity to songwriting, trying to do a little every day so as to keep his proverbial
line in the creative waters. But the band was still three months away from releasing its fifth
album, Pour It Out Into the Night, while he and his wife, Sam, were still six months away from
becoming first-time parents. He was anxious, he admits, and maybe a little depressed.
Though nearly 20 years have now passed since Shaw last had a drink, the thick thread of
alcoholism that winds through his family still sometimes tugs on him in moments like these.
He’d been thinking about how a dram or a draft might make him feel better, at least temporarily,
when he stirred in the middle of the night to write down some lines: “Well, I’m so bored, so
bored of being sober/Maybe I’ll go downtown, to some bar down on Decatur.” He finished the
song the next day, its verses drawing the battle lines between what he has been and can still
become. It was the first time he’d ever had such a pre-dawn epiphany, the first time a song had
ever arrived so urgently and simply. That song—“Get It Honest,” of course—became the
record’s emotional and musical centerpiece, the point from which ev