Properly, somebody needed to cowl Sufjan Stevens’ “Chicago” at All Issues Go, and Lucy Dacus stepped as much as the plate. Final night time at New York Metropolis’s Forest Hills Stadium, the singer-songwriter carried out a lovely rendition of the competition’s namesake.
In case there’s any doubt, competition promoter Stephen Vallimarescu confirmed to Forbes in 2023 that the competition title is in actual fact from that Illinois monitor, saying Stevens was a dream artist to have on the lineup. In 2019, Dacus additionally lined “Casimir Pulaski Day” from that very same album with Tomberlin.
Throughout her set, Dacus was additionally joined by Zohran Mamdani for a short look. “That is what our metropolis ought to really feel like,” the Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York Metropolis stated. “It needs to be a metropolis the place trans New Yorkers are cherished, a metropolis the place our queer neighbors are celebrated, and a metropolis the place each New Yorker might be the fullest model of themselves. And it needs to be a metropolis that each one of us can afford.” Dacus additionally jokingly requested the group in the event that they thought he would sing her Hozier collab “Bullseye” together with her.
The boygenius member additionally continued her streak of officiating followers’ marriage onstage; final night time, eight {couples} sealed the deal in the course of the Perpetually Is A Feeling monitor “Huge Deal.” Watch footage from the night under.
