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Fleet Foxes captivate First Avenue audience

Fleet Foxes performed at First Avenue in Minneapolis on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.
Fleet Foxes performed at First Avenue in Minneapolis on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.Nikhil Kumaran | MPR

by Nikhil Kumaran

July 05, 2023

Fleet Foxes filled First Avenue’s Mainroom stage in Minneapolis on Tuesday with their echoing harmonies and lush instrumentation. Uwade, a Nigerian-based singer-songwriter based in New York opened for the group. She sang sweetly while strumming her electric guitar, getting audiences ready for what was to come.

Fleet Foxes was greeted by a shower of screams from the tightly packed general admission section, as the show was sold out. Concertgoers were lulled into a trance by the group’s well composed instrumentation which included a brass section, thumping bass (both electric and upright), drums and percussion, guitars traded amongst members, and strikingly chilling vocals. 

Set List

Sun Giant 

Wading in the Waist-high Water (with Uwade) 

Sunblind 

Can I Believe You 

Ragged Wood 

Your Protector 

He Doesn’t Know Why 

Featherweight 

Third of May (Odaigahara) 

Phoenix (Big Red Machine cover) 

Bedouin Dress 

White Winter Hymnal 

Mearcstapa 

Mykonos 

Silver Dagger (traditional cover) 

Montezuma 

Cradling Mother, Cradling Woman 

Maestranza 

Blue Ridge Mountains 

Grown Ocean