Perhaps it was high time that a band named after Minneapolis’ most famous main drag should headline the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand. Lake Street Dive did so Saturday night, topping the bill on the “Music on a Stick” concert sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio’s “The Current.” But, in a bittersweet twist, the show came days after the founding member from Minneapolis who suggested the name, Mike “McDuck” Olson, left the band.
Yet Lake Street Dive didn’t seem in the least out of synch Saturday. In fact, new guitarist James Cornelison slipped right into the band’s funk-flavored groove and added some welcome rough edges to a sound that could be a little too sweet and slick on past visits. But one thing has not changed about the band from Boston cum Brooklyn: Its sound is built around the soulful jazz-schooled voice of Rachael Price.
Throughout the band’s 100-minute set, Price proved the center of attention, thanks to a warm and charismatic manner and, especially, a distinctive growl of a delivery that makes her one of the most interesting singers currently plying pop on the radio. She and her band delivered a richly entertaining show of effervescent R&B and heartfelt ballads about love lost and found, at its best when propelled by Bridget Kearney’s straight-out-of-Motown bass lines. And the crowd of 4,217 enthusiastically sang along and danced amid the raindrops all evening.
Despite its members meeting at one of America’s foremost classical music schools — Boston’s New England Conservatory — Lake Street Dive has evolved into a soul band, and it’s a good fit for the talents of this consortium of songwriter/performers. While its set began with breezy crowd-pleasers like “Know That I Know,” “Bad Self Portraits” and “Hypotheticals,” the most memorable performances came when Price seized the spotlight for such heart-on-sleeve ballads as “Nobody’s Stopping You Now” and “Anymore.”
But Price wasn’t the only lead singer who made a strong impression Saturday night. When the very entertaining Low Cut Connie dropped off the bill after finding that masks and vaccinations weren’t required at the Fair, that presumably expanded the time window allowed Kiss the Tiger, a current favorite on the Twin Cities club scene … or rather, the outdoor concert scene this summer of our distancing. And they took advantage with a high-energy 15-song set.
While much of what Kiss the Tiger offers musically sounds like a hybrid of Rolling Stones riff rock and punked-up abandon, what sets the Minneapolis quintet band apart is the magnetic performing style of lead singer Meghan Kreidler. Among the most celebrated actors to emerge on the local theater scene over the past decade, Kreidler seems to have snared the role of a lifetime as a flamboyant front woman, exuding a confidence that made her seem the ringmaster of all she surveyed.
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