Wednesday, February 19, 2025

In photos: Dawes, Paul Spring

WILMINGTON — “If you can get a recording of this show, I highly recommend giving it a listen.”

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This comes from photographer Tom Dorgan of MoonFrog Media, who attended the Dawes show at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater last month, just as the venue began launching its season of outdoor shows. Dawes was joined by singer-songwriter Paul Spring.

An intimate evening, Spring’s lyrics brought “topical thoughts for the crowd to chew on that aren’t from an algorithm,” Dorgan described.

Once Dawes hit the stage, gratitude filled the air — for the crowd showing the love in a space that lead man Taylor Goldsmith said he appreciated. Joining him were his brother, Griffin Goldsmith (drums), Wylie Gelber (bass) and Lee Pardini (keyboards) to play through roughly a dozen or so songs.

“It felt like a deep breath in,” Dorgan said.

Below is the setlist and photos from the show:

From a Window Seat
Right on Time
Everything Is Permanent
Roll With the Punches
Fire Away
Crack the Case
House Parties
Comes in Waves
When My Time Comes
Still Strangers Sometimes (New song)
St. Augustine at Night (Acoustic)
When the Tequila Runs Out
A Little Bit of Everything
Things Happen
Someone Else’s Café/Doomscroller Tries to Relax
All Your Favorite Bands

Paul Spring


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Shea Carver
Shea Carver
Shea Carver is the editor in chief at Port City Daily. A UNCW alumna, Shea worked in the print media business in Wilmington for 22 years before joining the PCD team in October 2020. She specializes in arts coverage — music, film, literature, theatre — the dining scene, and can often be tapped on where to go, what to do and who to see in Wilmington. When she isn’t hanging with her pup, Shadow Wolf, tending the garden or spinning vinyl, she’s attending concerts and live theater.

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