Dan Mangan Needs (and Gets) Love Too

Friday night the Columbia City Theater hosted an evening of music curated by our good friends at Sound on the Sound, bringing together Portland's Jared Mees and the Grown Children and local headliners Black Whales, who somehow had to try and follow the middle act, Vancouver singer-songwriter Dan Mangan.

As you can see above, for his final song, Dan made his way through the crowd to do a mid-audience acoustic sing-along version of "Robots." (SotS also captured a charming version of "The Indie Queens are Waiting," featuring "gender-bending backing vocals from the band.") Mangan put on a charismatic show of quick-witted folk pop with sharp observations of the everyday, which included a song where his band eschewed drums in favor of just stomping out the beats on the stage. His whole set had an easy energy that was hard to resist. Do yourself a favor and stream new album, Nice Nice Very Nice, at Dan's website.