Jens Lekman wraps up his North American tour tonight in Washington, DC, and earlier this week he played two nights at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg. Originally scheduled for 2020, this tour has Jens and his band playing with local youth orchestras in select cities, and for the MHOW shows he was joined by Orchestrating Dreams. Pictures from Night 2 (May 23) by P Squared are in this post.
In very Stop Making Sense fashion, Jens began the show solo and gradually brought out his band, member by member. After a few songs with the band, he brought out the orchestra to perform with them for the rest of the main set. Jens shows are generally life-affirming events, but this was all the more so. His set included lots of Lekman classics, including "The Opposite of Hallelujah," "Black Cab," "Maple Leaves," "You Are the Light," "Tram #7 to Heaven," and more, and he closed his encore with "Sipping on the Sweet Nectar" and "A Postcard to Nina." Check out Monday's Night 2 setlist below.