The Salt Lake City Arts Council presents the 38th Annual Twilight Concert Series

It was winter in Manhattan. The streets were frozen and still the band rode bicycles to the Power Station on 53rd and back to Brooklyn every day for three weeks. Just the tip of the iceberg of time put into creating this body of songs. Three weeks that would mark the birth of Double Infinity - the album that constitutes a grand departure for Big Thief. An ultramodern community of musicians gathered together in the warm wooden room where Bruce once stood. They all tracked together - simultaneously - improvising arrangements and making collective discoveries.

Laraaji created drones with zither and an iPad and sang intuitive vocal melodies. Joshua Crumbly played bass; Mikey Buishas made live tape loops and played keys; Mikel Patrick Avery, Jon Nellen, and Caleb Michel played percussion; Adam Brisbin played guitar; and Hannah Cohen, June McDoom, and Alena Spanger sang background vocals. Along with core members Adrianne, Buck, and James, the group played for nine hours a day. Double Infinity is the archive of this play. It could only have been produced, engineered and mixed by longtime Big Thief collaborator Dom Monks.

In the opening song, ‘Incomprehensible’, Adrianne drives with childhood mementos. Nose against the future, she understands “everything I see from now on will be something new.” The silver hairs on her shoulders are new as well. Yet fear of aging is cracked by proof. Her mother and grandmother exist as answers, “How can beauty that is living be anything but true?” If a life is shaped by living, “Let gravity be my sculptor, let the wind do my hair.” Being born, then staying a while, remains the greatest mystery. Adrianne claims her place and time. “Incomprehensible, let me be.”

On ‘Words’, Adrianne’s voice emerges from delicacy. Words keep failing her. They can’t mend a distance, leaving her “only ever half home.” She can’t say what needs saying. Her subconscious is knowing, while “words won’t make it right.” A fire is rising, vitality starved for air. “Now I’m higher than I’ve ever been.” Below, words drift, pointless.

Classic and steadfast, ‘Los Angeles’ is a song of revival. In the years after lovers part, friendship breathes at the surface. Reunions spark memories. “The picture box is full and we are kissing in a fistful of fragments falling down.” Time may reshape this love, but can’t sink it. “I’ll follow you forever. Even without looking. You call we come together.” The chorus names a magic, the spell that first bound them, and still braids their lives. “You sang for me. You sang for me.”

Piano keys drop prettily from a floating groove in ‘All Night All Day’, a song of pleasure. Bodies are glorious. Praising your lover calls for singing, “All night, all day, I could go down on you.” Too often shame’s bitterness seals our lips. “Swallow poison swallow sugar, sometimes they taste the same, but I know your love is neither, and love is just a name. It's a thing we say for what pulls through 'til we come together.” A union called “love” is a place where shame weakens. Love is neither poison, nor sugar, neither the bitterness nor the sweetness, but something deeper than both, deeper than sensation. It is the "eye behind the essence" which is bigger than naming. Making love can be the expression of this nameless thing.

‘Grandmother’ is the first song all three members of Big Thief wrote together. They ask, “what should be done with generations of love and pain?” A future is coming when the bar where they dance and the car where they kiss will be gone. Worry for the future keeps Grandmother from sleeping. Saying sorry to a lover for being lazy is followed by a clear-eyed case for transformation. “I saw sun through the clouds. I saw love through the pain.” The chorus knows what needs doing: “Gonna turn it all into rock and roll.”

‘Double Infinity’ reaches into the idea of inner and outer worlds, and the body as the bridge. It speaks to the purgatory created by the human brain, always looking to the past or future, between the things we’ve lost and the things we want, between desire and regret. “Beauty speak to me, let me know you, let me see myself inside your mystery, through the crystal cage of aging.” It calls for true beauty to speak, not fabricated, conditioned ideas of beauty. At the bridge between “what is forming” and “what is fading”, between “losing and of gaining”, “mourning and celebrating”, perhaps there is solace in “the eye behind the essence, still, unmovable”, that which is “unchanging”, outside of time. Is it love?

• 2025 Twilight Concert Series Season Ticket Packages
• Jul 12: EARTHGANG with JMSN and Bad Luck Brigade @ Gallivan Center
• Jul 17: Sierra Ferrell with Kaitlin Butts and Sammy Brue @ Library Square
• Aug 6: Waxahatchee with Foxwarren and Wilbere @ Gallivan Center
• Aug 12: Mt Joy with The Moss @ Library Square
• Sept 5: Japanese Breakfast with Ginger Root and Tomper @ Gallivan Center
• Sept 22: Big Thief with special guests to be announced @ Library Square

For Gallivan Center events, gates will open at 6:00pm. For Library Square events, gates will open at 5:00pm.

Check out the official Twilight Concert Series 2025 Spotify Playlist

In its 38th year, the Twilight Concert Series has presented a wide range of nationally recognized and upcoming recording artists paired with local musicians and performers. The highly anticipated summer concert series connects audiences through live music by presenting musically diverse artists to enliven culture and enhance the quality of life in Salt Lake City. This vibrant and beloved program is presented by the Salt Lake City Arts Council in partnership with S&S Presents.

Thanks to our partner Utah Transit Authority, your ticket to the 2025 Salt Lake Twilight Concert Series also includes free UTA Fare. Ride UTA trains or local buses with your Salt Lake Twilight concert ticket and enjoy free fare all day on the day of the event (Paratransit, Ski, and PC-SLC Connect Service not included). Simply show your concert ticket to the bus operator or UTA fare enforcement personnel when you’re asked for proof of payment.

All events are held rain or shine. Artists subject to change. More info at twilightconcertseries.com

Twilight is committed to being accessible to everyone. For accessibility needs or questions, please visit twilightconcertseries.com. Additional support can be received by emailing support@snspresents.com with at least 48 hours advance notice of show date to guarantee the best experience possible.

To provide a safe and enjoyable environment for all, please keep the following concert rules in mind. Check twilightconcertseries.com for updated info. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

The 2025 Twilight Concert Series is made possible by our generous partners: The Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake City Department of Economic Development, The Gallivan Center, Coors Light, Wasatch Brewery, Squatters Craft Beer, Blue Moon Brewing Co, Downtown Alliance, The Blocks, Five Wives Vodka, Madam Pattirini Gin, Porter’s Rye Whiskey, Integrated Companies, Swire Coca-Cola, XMission, ABODE SLC with Keller Williams, Tsuki Sake, The Shop, Salt Lake County ZAP, National Endowment of the Arts, Utah Division of Arts & Museums, The George S. & Delores Dore Eccles Foundation, Visit Salt Lake, Utah Transit Authority, Greenbike, KRCL 90.9FM, KUAA 99.9FM, All City Event Rentals, Third Sun Productions, CityWeekly, SLUG Magazine, 24tix, and S&S Presents.

VENUE RULES & INFORMATION

• Everyone regardless of age entering the venue must have a ticket for entry. This includes children.
• Food Trucks and Beverage Stations (alcoholic & non-alcoholic) are available for purchasing items.
• Free Water Stations will be provided. Patrons may bring in one empty water bottle per person to use at the event.
• Twilight is committed to being accessible to everyone. For accessibility needs or questions, please visit twilightconcertseries.com. Additional support can be received by emailing support@snspresents.com with at least 48 hours advance notice of show date to guarantee the best experience possible.
• Artists are subject to change. Refunds are not issued based on specific artist cancellations.
• No re-entry
• No exchanges or refunds
• No weapons or firearms
• No backpacks or large purses
• No pets allowed – services animals only
• No coolers
• No drones
• No smoking or vaping
• No outside food
• No outside alcohol or liquids of any kind
• No glass
• No cameras or professional recording equipment
• No umbrellas
• No skateboards in the venue
• No blankets or chairs
• Security reserves the right to refuse entry to anyone at their discretion
• Security reserves the right to conduct pat down searches at their discretion
• All concerts are rain or shine