Solange

Solange

Solange showed up a little over twenty minutes late, which means by the time she actually did come onstage, what had been a tightly packed crowd had already begun to thin out. While the wait sucked, it was pretty much worth it — by the time Solange started, it was pretty easy to move decently close to the stage and feel like you were in a more intimate party, as these festival sets go. Being a sucker for the ’80s synth tones and basslines sprinkled occasionally in her music, I’m one of those people who kinda sorta prefers Solange’s music to her much more famous sister’s, but I wasn’t sure what to expect of her live. Having figured it might be a smaller kind of production, it was surprising to find that Solange can do the full-blown pop-star thing, just on a particular level where she promises she’s going to go backstage and smoke a massive joint right after the set. (It’s pretty hard to picture Beyonce saying that onstage these days, but I’ve never seen Beyonce live so who knows.) After showing up super late, Solange also stuck around super late, hanging onstage for something like twenty to thirty extra minutes and just continuing to play, bringing Dev Hynes, Moses Sumney, and R&B trio King onstage to sing Nina Simone’s “Young, Gifted, & Black” with her before wrapping up with an infectious, crowd-pleasing rendition of “Losing You.”