Orebolo at Moon Palace Beach Stage, January 12, 2024

Playa Luna Presents presents Orebolo
Moon Palace Beach Stage
Carretera Cancun - Chetumal KM 36.5, Cancún, QROO 77500 MEX
6:00 PM, Friday, January 12, 2024

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6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ♦ Orebolo
7:30 PM – 10:30 PM ♠ Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros with the Wolfpack
11:00 PM – 12:30 AM ♥ Mickey Hart's Noche de Ondas

Dead Ahead promo poster

[6:00 PM] {performers out. Giant bang when Peter plugs in; kinda windy right now!}

1. [6:01 PM] Echo of a Rose »
2. [6:07 PM] California Magic
3. [6:12 PM] I'm Writing a Novel
   [6:18 PM] {short break}
4. [6:18 PM] Silver Rising
   [6:26 PM] {pause}
5. [6:27 PM] Atlantic City
   [6:32 PM] {add Sturgill Simpson}
6. [6:34 PM] Breakers Roar (SS)
   [6:37 PM] {SS off}
7. [6:38 PM] Tumble
   [6:45 PM] {PA: we got a couple more for you guys}
8. [6:46 PM] Angel Band
9. [6:51 PM] Madhuvan
   [6:59 PM] {add Bobby Weir}
10. [7:01 PM] Brokedown Palace
    [7:06 PM] {set ends}

Orebolo

• Peter Anspach: acoustic guitar, vox;
• Jeff Arevalo: contrabass;
• Rick Mitarotonda: acoustic guitar, vox.

• Sturgill Simpson: guitar, vox.
• Bob Weir: guitar, vox.

We take our time getting to the queue, and end up at 104+105 for early entry out of 130-140 total bands given out. That's a lot fewer than prior years. I'm glad: that means things ought to be more relaxed, right?

We have a nice hang for the next hour or so, a dozen rail peeps clustered in the shade of a little beach palapa. Eventually it's lottery time, and today's winning number is selected: 71! That's awesome for us, yay!

By 5:23 PM we have attained today's goal: a blanket spot dead center, 8 ft from the rail. Perfect! Everybody is friendly today, and it's nice making new friends among fellow riders on the GD bus.

Orebolo starts off promptly and plays a solid-but-short set. I didn't recognize I'm Writing a Novel as a Father John Misty cover while they played it, but after the fact, yeah, I should have known that, for sure! I was glad that they had Sturgill and Bob out for guest spots, and the choice of Brokedown Palace to end the set really surprised me: time to cross that one off for the Dead Ahead setlist possibilities, eh?

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2024 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2024 event list! ☸ On to the next event!