11/28/2023 0 Comments Nate werth ghostnote![]() ![]() ![]() We had no idea that this festival was going to be wild and a party. Our “day” felt like this: We played from 10:30pm to 12:30am, encored until 12:45am, packed up the percussion instruments I travel with, walked off stage at 1am, showered and packed my bags until 2:30am, laid down for 45 minutes, left the hotel at 3:30am, arrived at the airport at 4:30am, departed for Bulgaria at 5:45am, layover from 7:30-9am, departed for Bulgaria (again) arriving at 10:30am, transported directly to the stage for sound check from 11:30am until 2pm, although it felt like teleportation, checked into the hotel at 2:30pm, lunch at 3pm, nap from 4:30-6:30pm, lobby call 7pm, arrived at the festival site at 7:30pm, dinner at 8pm, took the stage at 9:30pm, played a 2 hour set to 15,000+ people, and man I have never had so much energy and fun on stage. This is the common theme while touring summer festivals in Europe. In fact, it had been this type of schedule for a week already, with 2 weeks to go on the tour with little sleep. Yep you guessed it, no sleep essentially. We arrived in Bulgaria that morning on the earliest possible flight from another country in Europe where the night before we’d also headlined a festival. It was our first time playing in Bulgaria as a band, and in fact everyone’s first time playing there as well. We headlined their Summer music festival with 15,000+ people in attendance on barely any sleep, and rocked the crowd. Summer 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria with Ghost-Note. You can also read the previous installments of the series from percussionist Keita Ogawa (Snarky Puppy), drummer John Kimock (Mike Gordon), singer Shira Elias (Turkuaz), bassist Chris DeAngelis (Kung Fu/The Breakfast), bassist Reed Mathis (Electric Beethoven, Billy & The Kids, Golden Gate Wingmen), and saxophonist James Casey (Trey Anastasio Band). While the live music industry as we once knew it remains crippled by the pandemic, we’re checking in with some of our favorite musicians to reflect on years past (both the good times and the bad), see what they’re most looking forward to once the ongoing live event hiatus comes to an end, and find out what they’d like to do differently when that time comes.įor the latest installment of this series, percussionist Nate Werth (Ghost-Note, Snarky Puppy) offers his ‘2020 Reflections’. As the coronavirus continues to spread, musicians are left to figure out how to adapt to a world in which live concerts are out of the question. ![]()
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