Taylor Dafoe, chair of Skidmore’s Student Entertainment Company, said students couldn’t be any more excited about the event that has become a campus tradition in recent years.
“I think this will be one of the biggest years, in terms of production and ticket sales,” Dafoe said. “There has already been a high demand from the public for tickets, and about half of the student population usually goes.”
Releasing their first full-length album in 2003 and their most recent EP “About To Die” in 2012, Dirty Projectors have been celebrated as musicians whose music cannot easily be placed in a genre-specific box.
Dafoe said Dirty Projectors’ music has resonated with Skidmore students for several years.
“We’ve been trying to get them to play for the past four years, but it never came to fruition for various reasons,” Dafoe said. “Their music really appeals to the Skidmore aesthetic so after their last album, we made an extra effort to pursue them to play and the anticipation for this show is really great.”
Opening up for Dirty Projectors is Delicate Steve, a bedroom music project turned popular up-and-coming band.
“Delicate Steve can do crazy live shows,” Dafoe said. “It’s all instrumental based and is musically complex, they use a lot of unconventional instruments and play happy, upbeat kind of music.”
The Spring Show, put on by Student Entertainment Company, will take place April 13 at 8 p.m. at the Williamson Sports Center at Skidmore. Tickets are $5 for students beforehand, $10 at the door and $20 for the general public, available at Skidmore College’s Case Center or online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/354638.
“We’re really excited about the show,” Dafoe said. “It’s by far the show we have been the most excited to put on.”
