Singer-songwriter Josh Ritter visited the Tarrytown Music Hall just up the Hudson River from New York City on Thursday to share his craft. The evening saw the multi-hyphenate perform over two dozen songs from throughout his catalog.
After opening up with “A Big Enough Sky”, Ritter made sure to touch on his most recent album, 2019’s Fever Breaks, with “On The Water”. Peppered in amid classics like “Old Black Magic” and “Kathleen” were deeper cuts like “Miles Away”, which was included on Ritter’s 2020 EP of rare and unreleased recordings, See Here, I Have Built You A Mansion.
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After closing the main set with perhaps his most celebrated composition, “Getting Ready To Get Down”, Ritter paid homage to his influences with a three-song encore featuring covers of Jimmy Durante and Garth Brooks as well as a closing “Girl in the War”.
Check out a gallery of images from Josh Ritter at Tarrytown Music Hall on Thursday below courtesy of photographer Andrew Blackstein. Ritter’s next show is on June 16th at the Prescott Park Arts Festival in Portsmouth, NH. For tickets and a full list of tour dates visit his website.
Setlist: Josh Ritter | Tarrytown Music Hall | Tarrytown, NY | 5/5/22
Set: A Big Enough Sky, A Certain Light, New Lover, On the Water, Henrietta, Indiana, Sheriff McGiven, Miles Away, Silverblade, Train Go By [1], For Your Soul, Our Father’s War, Oh Lord (Part 3), Where the Night Goes, (Unknown), Empty Hearts, To the Dogs or Whoever, Kathleen, Dreams, Strangers, Theophany, The Curse, Galahad, Getting Ready to Get Down
Encore: Make Someone Happy (Jimmy Durante), Friends in Low Places (Garth Brooks), Girl in the War
[1] Cut short
