![]() ![]() ![]() With a little bit of an overcast, Domies woke up Friday morning with a perfect cool temperature to start off their second day. ![]() The band finished off their set with a rocked-out extended “Whosawhatsa” instrumental jam to close out the first night. Their electro-funk groove “Use Me” made an appearance on their 16-song set, and Domies who stayed up to groove were treated with a “No Sleep” equipped with jazzy saxophone harmonies. Maryland jammers Litz kept the festival up on their toes with a classic funky “Strawberry Letter 23” opener for their hour-and-45-minute late-night set. Set: Too Long, Sports Theme, Somethin’ For Ya > Wireless > You Sexy Thing > My Girl > Wireless, Melting Lights > Enter Sandman^ > Live It Up, Whoopie%, Couldn’t We All, Paperboy*, SchwanthemĮncore: Su Casa > Country Roads^ > Su Casa Setlist: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong | Domefest Night 1 | Marvin’s Mountaintop | 5/16/19 Nestled in West Virginia, the band surprised everyone with a rock rendition of John Denver’s “Country Roads,” as the crowd joined along with the lyrics, “country roads, take me dome” before segueing back into a “Su Casa” to crown the victorious first night. The band ran back onstage for an encore celebrating Domecoming king Schon’s birthday and 10th year as a festival with a birthday song and cake before closing out the night with an unexpected blissful “Su Casa” sequence. A hard and heavy “Schwanthem” closed out the first night’s set as cheers roared over the mountains. The hip-hop jam “Couldn’t We All” broke out among the festival to spread the friendly vibes, leading the band to debut the brand-new lyrical song “Paperboy”. Petropulos took the main vocals for Pigeons’ debut of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” for some hard rock jams, sending fans into a cheer of “let Gator sing!” The band kept the Domecoming celebration going with the party anthem “Live it Up” before inviting the Magic Beans’ Casey Russell up onstage to lay down some dimensional keyboard grooves in “Whoopie”. Kicking things off with “Too Long”, the guys jammed into a fun “Sports Theme” with rock flares of “The Final Countdown” before sending the crowd into a sing-along of “Somethin’ For Ya.” A “Wireless” sandwich appeared dosed with “You Sexy Thing” and “My Girl” covers before switching gears and rendering their classic “Melting Lights”. The Fritz returned onstage for a refreshing 30-minute set noting their love of Nirvana and Elton John with “Lithium” and “Bennie and the Jets” covers to gear the Flock up for a wild first night at Domefest.Īdorned in sparkly gold-sequined blazers and matching white pants, Greg Ormont, Jeremy Schon, Ben Carrey and Alex Petropulos strode onstage ready to kick off Thursday night with the first Pigeons set of the weekend-a true “Domecoming” to welcome the Flock. Frontman Scott Hachey rang out the lyrics, “This is the part where you feel good,” in their rendition of “Off Leash”, getting the crowd loosey-goosey for the night ahead. and kept it classy onstage with their lyrical “Do Your Thing” before going on a great 20-minute “Mission Jam” as the base of their first night’s set. Asheville five-piece The Fritz opened up the Bamboo Eater Stage for the weekend just as the sun was setting behind West Virginia’s mountains with an epic 30-minute set, equipped with tasteful covers of Michael Jackson‘s “Don’t Stop Til’ You Get Enough” and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”ĭomefest veterans and friends of the Flock Magic Beans started their first set of the weekend at 8:45 p.m. to dose the Flock up for the night with a rollin’ psychedelic rock fusion set, armed with their “The Aloe Parade” jam. Denver trio Cycles took the stage at 6:45 p.m. on the Gallery Society Stage as the festival grounds were starting to fill in. Pittsburgh artist Chalk Dinosaur sparked the first set of live music on the weekend on Thursday at 5 p.m. Attendees got the chance to spread their feathers around the huge property that formerly hosted All Good Music Festival, giving everyone ample space in the field and woods to enjoy their weekend festivities and play games at the Innova disc golf course. Arriving on-site, attendees were greeted with colorful signs reading, “Celebrate, Celebrate, Celebrate the People You Love,” and “Dome is Home,” noting that we’d be right at home for the next three days. Nestled in the mountains of West Virginia, Marvin’s Mountaintop was a new location for the festival this year, giving the Flock gorgeous views of the foggy mountains over the horizon each dawn and dusk. ![]() Over 2,000 Flockers flew in from around the country to take part in the band’s celebration of the festival’s 10th birthday, making it the biggest and best Domefest yet. Baltimore psychedelic rockers Pigeons Playing Ping Pong rocked Marvin’s Mountaintop in Masontown, West Virginia last weekend for their annual Domefest. ![]()
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