By Arianna Schmidt
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Northern Nevada local Athena McIntyre performed as the headliner at Saturday’s concert. -
Concert-goers set up chairs farther back to make room for a dance floor close to the stage. -
Seattle-based singer/songwriter Ian Moore opened Saturday’s concert. -
Saturday’s Levitt AMP concert drew a crowd of hundreds. -
Ian Moore got concert-goers up dancing during his opening set.
Saturday night’s Levitt AMP summer concert series offered a lively and charismatic display of folk music to a Carson City crowd of more than a thousand.
Ian Moore, a Seattle-based singer, songwriter and guitar player originally from Austin, Texas, opened the evening with a performance that stole the crowd’s hearts with his upbeat rhythm and relatable lyrics.
Athena McIntyre, a local Northern Nevada singer and songwriter, followed Moore’s performance as the main headlining act of the night. McIntyre’s drawing stage-presence and fiery vocals pleased concert-goers.
The weekly summer concert series is funded, in part, by the Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation. The 10-week Saturday night music feature runs through Aug. 25.
UPDATE July 10: Carson Now has changed the first paragraph from hundreds to more than a thousand people attended.
