Our friends at ShowBams sent us out to cover the Sage Francis show on San Francisco last week!
It was a few minutes before midnight when headliner Sage Francis took the stage following a couple different guest DJ sets Friday night at The Mezzanine. Scheduled openers, The Metermaids, had to cancel due to the blizzard in the East Coast.
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| Sage Francis @ The Mezzanine 1/30/2015 Photo by: Marc Fong |
It's been less than a year since Francis' last show in SF, and the innovative raper from Rhode Island gave fans a performance unmatched to any other solo hip-hop artist, bursting with his unique sound, style and grace.
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Sage Francis @ The Mezzanine 1/30/2015
Photo by: Marc Fong
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He hit the stage wrapped in a Strange Famous flag (a some-what subtle self promotion for his record label) with nothing more than a microphone and laptop laden with original instrumental beats to carry him through the set. While a majority of the set-list weighed heavily on tracks from older albums than more recent releases, like last year's Cooper Gone, Sage wholeheartedly spit his brutally honest lyrics with a certain attention grabbing swagger and spoken-word flare. The captivated crowd crowd was compelled to dance as they cheered him on through his lively and humbly engaging performance.
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Sage Francis @ The Mezzanine 1/30/2015
Photo by: Marc Fong
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Sage has a few more shows lined up in March on the East Coast before he comes back to Cali in late May to play at the M15 Concert Bar & Grill in Corona. Hopefully it's not another four years before we hear new music from one of SF's favorite off-beat rappers so that we can jump back in the Sage train!
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Sage Francis @ The Mezzanine 1/30/2015
Photo by: Marc Fong
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