Switchfoot is ready for a Jan. 31 to return to Petco Park, the place the Grammy Award-winning San Diego band performed a sold-out, socially distanced June 7 drive-in concert final 12 months.
This time, although, the five-man band gained’t be showing on a brief stage in one of many downtown stadium’s parking heaps. As an alternative, Switchfoot will carry out contained in the stadium and on Petco Park’s everlasting Sycuan Stage at Gallagher Sq. (beforehand referred to as Park on the Park). It’s positioned on a 2.8-acre inexperienced area simply past the centerfield fence at Petco Park.
The 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. live performance on Jan. 31 shall be streamed worldwide on the web and shall be simulcast by San Diego radio station 91X-FM. Switchfoot will carry out two units, one acoustic and one electrical.
The band is partnering on the present with 91X and the San Diego Padres. It’s being billed as “Switchfoot Streaming Stay from Petco Park,” though the band — like many different prime music acts which have carried out on-line in the course of the coronavirus pandemic — is pre-filming the live performance to attain most visible and audio high quality.
In a joint assertion issued Tuesday, the band’s members mentioned: “We love singing these anthems of hope with you and are so grateful that we’ve been capable of keep collectively even whereas aside. We’re so proud and grateful to name this unimaginable group our personal.” (The complete assertion seems under.)
The Jan. 31 live performance is the newest installment of Switchfoot’s “Unbelievable NOT Touring Music Present Stay Stream” collection, which airs by way of the band’s web site. Tickets for the Jan. 31 live performance value $10.99 and can be found at switchfoot.com.
The band’s web site additionally presents season passes for its “Unbelievable NOT Touring Music Present Stay Stream,” which presents new performances every month, together with bonuses that would vary from a solo present with the Switchfoot chief, Jon Foreman and a guitar lesson with lead guitarist Drew Shirley or a cooking lesson with drummer Chad Butler.
Amigos!
Right here we’re… 2021… we made it! And we’re beginning this 12 months off with an absolute BANG within the stay stream world…
We’re SO stoked and SO proud to announce that we’ll be stay streaming on January thirty first from the hallowed grounds of San Diego’s personal… Petco Park — Dwelling of the San Diego Padres!
It goes with out saying that 2020 was a wild journey, particularly in case you’re in our line of labor. Similar to everybody else, our worlds had been turned utterly the wrong way up instantly.
Again in March of final 12 months it felt as if our backs had been in opposition to the wall. We had two choices, shut up store and await this all to finish (at any time when that could be), or roll up our sleeves and battle to make one thing stunning out of a darkish 12 months. Fortunately, we selected the latter… And thus, the stay streams had been born!
Very similar to all of you, we had questions, even doubts after we first set out on the stay streaming journey: “Will it’s the identical? Will we be capable to join and convey hope in a significant manner?”… A lot to our delight, we discovered that sure, the stay stream could also be a special expertise from a real, stay rock and roll present, however it’s an unimaginable expertise nonetheless! Connecting with all of you throughout these streams has been wonderful and a real blessing over the course of the final 7 months.
So, in 2021, we’re proud to say, YES, the stay streams will proceed!
We love singing these anthems of hope with you and are so grateful that we’ve been capable of keep collectively even whereas aside. We’re so proud and grateful to name this unimaginable group our personal.
Sending love and excessive fives to everybody world wide,
Jon, Tim, Chad, Drew & Jerome
