Schedule
Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 7:00 pm (Main Stage)
Rock and roll is heady stuff. It has the power to lift you up when you’re down, and to unleash a torrent of emotions with just one well-placed chord. Listening to the New Orleans’ band The Revivalists, is like being at an old-time tent revival, where people shout and dance and throw their hands in the air, finding salvation in a cup of pure faith. This band’s music promises the same kind of release for believers in rock and roll.
This powerful and deeply soulful eight-piece band — Ed Williams (pedal steel guitar, guitar), David Shaw (lead vocals), Zack Feinberg (guitar), Rob Ingraham (saxophone), George Gekas (bass guitar), Andrew Campanelli (drums and percussion), Michael Girardot (keyboards and trumpet), and Paulet "PJ" Howard (drums and percussion) — holds high the rock banner in a weekend chock full of gritty blues acts. When they formed in 2007, Katrina’s devastation was still felt in the Crescent City. Like everyone in New Orleans, the band wanted nothing more than for the city’s residents to keep picking up the pieces, to survive, to emerge stronger than ever.
“When we formed, the city was getting back on its feet again,” Zack Feinberg told Billboard. “We're coming from that time and place in New Orleans and we're playing music that's a bunch of guys in a room playing instruments … It's part of what the band was founded on, just playing real music and believing what we're doing.”
Their latest record, Pour It Out Into the Night, is a collection of new songs that embrace, uplift, inspire and yes, revive our hopeful hearts. Such is the power of rock and roll.
