Umphrey’s McGee took us on a three-hour musical journey at Grinders Friday night

Allison Scavo,
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Umphrey’s McGee. // photo by Allison Scavo

Umphrey’s McGee
Grinders KC
Friday, May 17

Umphrey’s McGee was originally formed by students intelligent enough to have been enrolled at Notre Dame. That intelligence is evident and saturated in their ever flowing sound that flawlessly intertwines between genres that only those with an elevated sense of consciousness could compose. Umphrey’s has headlined festivals across the nation, after having swept us up, as if we are all Lois and they are our Superman.

Their show in Kansas City started when most shows are opening their doors, giving us over three hours of nonstop jams. Opening with “Pure Saturation,” their first song contained no lyrics. The song progressed and evolved from jazz to funk to reggae. Each song blended into the next, starting with mellow jams from the first note and ziplining right into Funkadelic zest, spiritedly intertwining between genres within the same song. If you are not an avid fan, you wouldn’t even know which song was which. But that’s kind of the beauty of it all.

Our photographer Allison Scavo was there to capture the event:

Umphrey’s McGee setlist:
Set 1:
Pure Saturation
The Bottom Half
Made to Measure
2nd Self
Day Nurse
Raymond
Words
Synchronicity II (The Police cover)

Set 2:
The Floor
Work Sauce
Bad Friday
Rocker Part 2
I Don’t Know What I Want
Ringo
August

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