Live From Fenway Park

Since releasing his third album, *Stick Season*, in the fall of 2022, life for alt-folk sensation Noah Kahan has been one bucket-list achievement after another: Grammy nominations, collaborations with heroes like Post Malone and Hozier, and headlining spots at seemingly every music festival in North America. But for a native New Englander, no moment was more special than his two-night stand at Boston’s most iconic venue in July 2024. “If I had enough words, I would tell you what this meant to me,” Kahan says on this live-album document of the events, “but I’m just going to play my sad, depressing music.” And that he does, treating his adoring faithful to a set list that essentially plays like *Stick Season* on shuffle, albeit delivered with the added stadium-rock gusto he’s acquired on his journey from bedroom troubadour to main-stage fixture. Even the most unspeakably tender songs in his canon—like “Forever” and “Maine”—are bolstered by the ultimate special effect: the sound of 38,000 fans shouting out every single lyric, transforming Kahan’s private mental-health mantras into communal catharsis. And once he starts strumming out *Stick Season*’s anthemic title track to close the show, the crowd unleashes a gale-force sing-along that’s powerful enough to topple the Green Monster.