Third Eye Blind, City and Colour, Nathaniel Rateliff and The Nightsweats wrap up XL 102’s “Miracle on Broad Street”
Richmond’s holiday celebration came this year in the form of a concert series featuring artists including Panic! At the Disco and Twenty-One Pilots.
iHeartRadio Richmond is hosting a seven-night concert series, “Miracle on Broad Street,” less than two miles from campus at the National.
The first night opened with Elle King, a singer/songwriter from Ohio, who is most famously known for her song “Ex’s & Oh’s.” When asked what inspired her music, King said getting broken up with, drinking and things going on in her life.
Other popular artists that have already participated in the iHeart Radio event include Twenty-One Pilots and Panic! At the Disco. The concerts were both sold out days before they took place.
“Miracle on Broad Street: Night Five” will occur on Dec. 11, with a performance by Third Eye Blind followed by City and Colour the following evening.
Third Eye Blind is an American rock band that was formed in 1993 and is known for their songs “Semi-Charmed Life” and “Jumper,” and their most recent album (2015) is called “Dopamine.” Since the ’90s, Third Eye Blind has sold more than 12 million records worldwide.
“City and Colour” is the alias for the Canadian singer/songwriter Dallas Green. The name City and Colour comes from his own name, Dallas being a city and Green being a color. He performs his own written songs accompanied by other Canadian indie and rock musicians.
“I’ve got a lot going on in my head when it comes to songs, I hear a lot of ideas, and that’s how I’m always going to approach it,” Green said.
The seventh and final performance will take place on Dec. 14 with the band Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats. Rateliff, known for his folksy, pensive songwriting, created a soulful R&B combo when he formed the band in 2013. They released their first album last August, which received positive reviews from critics of the Folk genre.
“The album is full of the ghosts of songwriting greats like Otis Redding, Chuck Berry and Van Morrison, and sounds like it should establish Rateliff as the breakneck bar brawler of the new soul movement,” said Harriet Gibstone from The Guardian.
Article by: Kristen Lair-Baker, Contributing Writer
