Stand up people- move, dance, feel what it is that makes music one our greatest human experiences- otherwise, stay home and let someone else have your ticket.

I’d imagine it’s easy to call people bad dancers (twice, no less in the same comment!) when you are sitting down comfortably next to other pretentious Savannah Music Festival patrons.

Similar to last year’s Wilco show, the ticket holders of the SMF at times work against building a positive reputation for the Savannah music scene, during those shows where fans in other cities would otherwise stand and return the energy that talented bands have worked hard to send to us as an audience.

‘Fans’ are treated to discouragement and disdain from ‘patrons’ who don’t know or care about the more progressive acts of the festival, the latter folks instead more worried about what the important board members and ‘bad’ dancers are doing instead of standing up and enjoying the experience as the band asked you to do.

I think it goes back to Savannah’s various venue issues/limitations. Clearly, Jones’ live show is all about audience interaction, so there were going to be people in front of the stage no matter what. I would probably have sat down occasionally in my front row seat, but there was no way I could have seen anything.

A smaller venue would be amazing, but that one sold out. (Probably the best seats for watching the show were those in the balcony where it would be easy to see over the heads of the crowd.) A smaller venue and suddenly there would have been all sorts of $$ issues.

We need a venue of that size that was not originally designed as a mid-century movie theater with a subtle grade — more of a stadium style venue but with plenty of room in front of the stage. But that’s just not something we have.