Hours after headlining Daze Between New Orleans, members of moe. and Umphrey’s McGee raced across the French Quarter for a late-night superjam. Fittingly dubbed Daze by Nite, the band included drummer Vinnie Amico, bassist Rob Derhak, and guitarist Al Schnier of moe. with guitarist Brendan Bayliss and keyboardist Joel Cummins from Umphrey’s McGee.

The members of moe. and Umphrey’s McGee have a longstanding relationship going back more than 20 years as co-hosts of Summer Camp Music Festival. That jewel of the Midwest music festival calendar, now known as Solshine: A Music & Arts Reverie, will not occur in 2025 due to a variety of factors, so the late-night assemblage at the Toulouse took on extra meaning for those in the audience reared at Three Sisters Park in Chilicothe, IL—as well as those on stage who reigned the festival each Memorial Day Weekend.

Brendan Bayliss embodied this excitement better than anyone, as he gushed between songs about the significance of playing with some of his musical heroes. The setlist boasted a fair mix of moe. and Umphrey’s McGee songs, including a huge “Moth” that bookended the single-set show. The supergroup hit a bit of a snag in UM’s “Silent Type” when Bayliss started the song in the wrong key, emblematic of the show’s rocky start. While the playing may not have been as tight as possible at the beginning of the show, jovial between-song banter and Bayliss using his wine bottle as a slide on J.J. Cale‘s “Clyde” was a fine substitute for technical perfection.

Midway through the show, around the time the band covered The Rolling Stones‘ “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin'”, Daze by Nite hit its stride. Al and Brendan locked into some Allman Brothers Band-esque dual lead playing, and the band ultimately reprised the “Buster” that moe. had taken for a memorable flight hours earlier at Daze Between—with Brendan handling vocals on the reprise.

The back half of the Daze by Nite show brought out the best in the collaboration. The band embarked on some of its most ambitious improvisation of the entire night on a pairing of “Cut the Cable” into “Recreational Chemistry”. With Rob providing a rock-solid centerpiece, Brendan and Al poked and prodded each other in entangled guitar leads, while Vinnie gradually dialed up the intensity until the band reached a ferocious climax with the tenacity of a 1995 Phish jam. At the peak of that jam, all of the sloppiness of the first half of the show became a distant memory, and the Toulouse transcended to the Red Barn at Summer Camp.

While it may be cliche for a jam band to cover Talking Heads at this point, Brendan taking his hands off his guitar to read the lyrics directly off a sheet of paper inches from his face gave the proceeding “Crosseyed and Painless” some style points. The ensuing jam also made up for the cover’s predictability, submerging into a deep, dark space as moe. keyboardist Nate Wilson sat down next to Joel midway through before a “Moth” reprise capped off the set.

The encore of Wang Chung‘s “Dance Hall Days” personified the spirit of collaboration between moe. and Umphrey’s, as Brendan held the lyric sheet for Rob while he sang and played bass. Though there will be no Summer Camp this year, the festival’s spirit lived on through the Daze by Nite superjam, with only slightly less humidity than Illinois in the summertime.

Check out a gallery of photos from Daze by Nite courtesy of photographer Jay Strausser and stream full-show audio from goodcooker.

Daze By Nite — Toulouse Theatre — New Orleans, LA — 4/29/25 — Full Audio

Setlist: Daze By Nite | Toulouse Theatre | New Orleans, LA | 4/29/25

Set: Moth -> In the Kitchen, Clyde (J.J. Cale), Silent Type [1], Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ (The Rolling Stones) -> Buster reprise, Cut the Cable -> Recreational Chemistry, Crosseyed and Painless (Talking Heads) [2] -> Moth reprise [2]
Encore: Dance Hall Days (Wang Chung)

[1] Restarted in the correct key
[2] w/ Nate Wilson on keys alongside Joel

Notes: This band featured a lineup of Brendan Bayliss and Joel Cummins of Umphrey’s McGee with Vinnie Amico, Rob Derhak, and Al Schnier of moe. During “Clyde”, Brendan briefly played slide guitar with a wine bottle. “Silent Type” was restarted because Brendan was in the wrong key. Brendan stopped playing guitar in “Crosseyed and Painless” and read the lyrics off a sheet of paper, crumpling it and throwing it into the crowd before the final verse. Similarly, Bayliss held the lyric sheet in front of Derhak during “Dance Hall Days”.