Hot, sweet and sticky: Snapshots from the inaugural Bourbon & Beyond
Headliners Eddie Vedder, Steve Miller Band and
Stevie Nicks all put on great shows. Vedder seemed a little confused as to where exactly he was, but he knew it had to do with bourbon.
“I’m more of a tequila guy,” he said, and some people reported that he sipped some bourbon on stage and ended up spitting it out. We didn’t see that ourselves, but we wouldn’t be surprised.
Also, we enjoyed Nicks’ banter with the audience Sunday night, which included her plea for people not to blow cigarette smoke in her direction. We suspect a lot of that smoke was coming from the nearby Char House, which promptly cut the smoke after her comment.
Here’s a closer look at some of what we witnessed at the inaugural Bourbon & Beyond:
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Louisville's Bourbon & Beyond Festival blends booze and tunes
Day two headliner Stevie Nicks closed out the first year of Bourbon Beyond with a crowd-pleasing performance on Sunday night. 9/24/17 Marty Pearl/Special to The C-J
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Photos from both days of Bourbon & Beyond
[all photos by Nik Vechery]
Bourbon & Beyond — the first-year sibling festival of Louder Than Life — slide into Louisville’s always-growing event calendar as both a celebration of the city’s native spirit and two days of radio rock heroes.
Headliners Steve Nicks, Eddie Vedder and Steve Miller led a list of names that ran several decades through a vortex of pop-culture notables. And, like Louder Than Life, Bourbon and Beyond moved bodies into the door by sticking to a pretty specific genre map, grabbing huge, ubiquitous names, and matching those with less famous but equally as interesting acts (Nikki Lane, Gary Clark Jr.), as well as FM staples that are much less interesting, but play songs that will be forever burned into your brain (Paul Rogers).
Throw in an absolute legend (Buddy Guy) and a famous actor who likes to play rock star (Kiefer Sutherland), and you have the first year of Bourbon & Beyond — a festival that was fun and strange. And in years to come, it’ll probably provide a few bands that rarely make their way to Louisville, along with a pretty unique experience, which will make it worth attending. Below are photos of both days from year one.—Scott Recker
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