Overall Rating
4.6
By Paulb
Great time
Saint Louis Music Park - Maryland Heights
Had a Great time the best Band around ,St Louis music park did a great job hosting the event only complaint I couldn’t bring my wife who has COPD because there is no area set up to drop off handicapped individuals who can’t walk very far I let them know they said they’d look into it.
By BonLover
Epic
Saint Louis Music Park - Maryland Heights
The show was incredible! Life Changing. This venue is the perfect size! If I had one thing to change it would be the amount of room between the rows. If you need to get up for any reason it is very difficult to get out. Otherwise I had the perfect experience!
By Equis
Amazing band. Not the venue.
Saint Louis Music Park - Maryland Heights
Bon Iver was amazing. But the sound not so much. The only problem for me was that in some songs the music turned into noise. I think because of the metal material the seating was made of. They vibrated so much that it was unbearable.
By Trisha
Different vibe this time around
Saint Louis Music Park - Maryland Heights
I started listening to Bon Iver in 2007, and I first saw Justin and the band live in 2013 at the most beautiful outdoor venue in the country, Red Rocks Amphitheater outside of Denver. This latest show was a completely different vibe since in subsequent years Justin's sound has changed. The setlist was all over the place, going from Blood Bank to a song that was electronic with distorted vocals to another song where it seemed like spoken word poetry. I couldn't get into it. Thirty minutes into the show I had been so excited to see I finally had to admit to myself: this is awful. The show was so far off from what I was expecting. About a decade ago BI was my absolute favorite band. Unless Justin does an anniversary tour for his first or second album, I will never bother seeing him live again. They played 5 older songs from the first 2 or 3 records.
By Jessica
Lots of Synthesize, little Acoustic. Didn't play Skinny Love
Saint Louis Music Park - Maryland Heights
Bon Iver does not play Skinny Love on this tour. Only did two acoustic songs and the rest were jam band/ synthesizer (think Ross on Friends with his keyboard). Not horrible music but did not play their popular songs... good luck. Beat traffic and don't stay for the encore.
By Big Fan
Amazing concert!
Saint Louis Music Park - Maryland Heights
First time seeing Bon Iver in concert and it did not disappoint. What rich and moving music! Also really enjoyed the opening act Bonny Lighthorseman!
By Egh97
Worth waiting for
Saint Louis Music Park - Maryland Heights
This was such an amazing concert, the music was fantastic. They did a really cool mix of heavier electronic stuff and softer more acoustic songs. Definitely an artist worth seeing in person.
By Marissa
10/10
Bold Point Park - East Providence
My boyfriend won a pair of tickets to this show in a raffle. He couldn’t make it, luckily Ticketmaster was able to transfer the tickets to me. I love Bon Iver, and have been listening to him for the better part of 10 years. This show was incredible, and the venue was pretty nice!
By Stay4Tea
Amazing Show
Bold Point Park - East Providence
Recordings do this band no justice. Must see live!!!!
By Vanessa
Such an amazing concert!
Thompson's Point - Portland
It’s been a dream of ours to see Bon Iver live and the experience was even better than we could have imagined! Can’t wait for the next one :)
Bon Iver in Concert
With his 2007 debut album, Justin Vernon demonstrated the therapeutic, soul-cleansing properties of isolating yourself from the world in a wooden shed.
Distraught over breakups with both his girlfriend and his band (DeYarmond Edison) while recovering from a bout of mononucleosis, Vernon disappeared into the woods of his native Wisconsin in the dead of winter. He emerged with For Emma, Forever Ago, a disarming set of raw folk-rock confessionals fueled by tense acoustic strums and Vernon's pained, preternaturally soulful croon. (In keeping with the album's frigid recording environment, Vernon adopted the alias Bon Iver — a variation on the French term "bon hiver," or "good winter," which he heard used as a salutation on the 1990s TV show Northern Exposure.)
The album's unvarnished approach made Vernon an anomaly in a North American indie-rock scene otherwise dominated by the maximalist likes of Arcade Fire and Animal Collective, but its intense emotional wallop reverberated far beyond the underground. After his songs permeated the mainstream through placements on shows like Grey's Anatomy and House, Vernon found himself both getting sampled on and providing backing vocals to Kanye West's 2010 magnum opus, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
That guest appearance transformed Vernon into an unlikely hot property in the hip-hop world, with the singer later turning up on tracks by Travis Scott, Vince Staples, and Lizzo, among others. Between his myriad collaborations and side groups (which include his partnership with The National's Aaron Dessner as Big Red Machine), Bon Iver albums tend to appear only every five years or so. But each one is a major event, signaling a radical change in approach. On 2011's Grammy Award–winning self-titled effort, Vernon's wounded balladry acquired a dreamy, soft-focus splendor, and 2016's 22, A Million recast that velvet-smooth voice against a mutating backdrop of burbling electronics and fractured beats.