Jennifer  (4/26/2008 8:48:49 PM)

I was there last night and they were great!! I have never seen them before now and they are the frist band I have ever seen that was better on stage than on their CD`s. I really enjoyed the concert and I will be in Raleigh on 7/26/08 to see them again!! I am hooked they are GREAT!!! Come back to Merlefest I know if The Avett`s are there I will be and a whole lotta other will be too!!

   Stephanie  (7/24/2006 7:35:22 AM)

This show was great and the recording is the clearest live recording that I`ve heard from the Avett Brother`s so far. I can`t wait to see them in Charlotte in August!

   Tommi  (6/8/2006 3:31:52 AM)

Hi guys i`m from Italy, i never seen the avett bros in concert and maybe i`m not reliable. Anyway i wont write my opinion about this show and this band: sounds great!drunk folk-rock! Something like The Gourds. What`s better?
I would highly recommend downloading this show.
ciao ciao

   C.W.  (5/10/2006 11:09:52 AM)

The Avett Brothers show a lot of energy and passion with the stage performance. The show I saw was not on the Watson Stage but I believe the Austin Stage. The sounds is like punk rock played on bluegrass instruments. A very "striped-down" sound, with harsh vocals at times, not bad vocals, just purposely sung off key.

The songs express spiteful feelings of lost love, bad love, or no love at all. Unlike punk rock I don’t recall any songs about rebelling against society or some other institution, but I could have just have missed it.

This was a wild show with a lot of energy. Don’t expect this to be your “grand pappy’s” bluegrass, heck not even your father’s bluegrass sounded like this.