Lucy Dacus @ The Louisville Palace - Louisville
September 17th, 2025: Lucy Dacus with Slow Pulp @ The Louisville Palace - Louisville, KY
Lucy Dacus | Photos Courtesy of: Emily May
Indie rock singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus brought her Forever Is A Feeling North America Tour to The Louisville Palace on September 17th to a packed venue of fans! Having released her latest album, Forever Is A Feeling, in March of this year, Dacus performed several songs this evening from the new album, including “Ankles”, “Modigliani”, and “Talk”, as well as older tracks, delighting both older and newer fans alike. The stage production and set-up were really nice, with soft lighting and screens at the back of the stage that projected scenes of nature and other soothing scenes, leading to a cosy and intimate experience. Dacus spent time all around the stage, whether interacting with her band, sitting on the platform near the keyboard, or walking along the front of the stage to engage with her fans. She talked early in the set about how much she loved The Louisville Palace Theater and how it reminded her of a theatre she loved in Richmond, VA where she grew up.
One of the funnest parts of the evening came ahead of her performance of “Best Guess”, as she welcomed a couple out on the stage to get married. Dacus, who is ordained to perform weddings, has been marrying couples onstage at each tour stop after inquiring, ahead of the tour, about whether or not people facing barriers to marriage would like to get married on the tour. She called Chloe and Sydney (I hope I got the names right!) to the stage, who had travelled all the way from Colorado Springs, asking them if they had anything they wanted to say about their love for each other and why they wanted to get married, before performing the short ceremony. The couple then danced together as Dacus performed the song, and she then sent them off stage with a red rose, a hug, and well wishes, saying, “May your love last forever!”. It was a beautiful and heartfelt moment!
She later invited her bandmate Dominic Angelella to the couch near the front of the stage to perform “Bullseye" with her, in a very intimate and acoustic performance. She then performed a few more songs, announcing that we were approaching the part of the evening where the show was almost over. Smiling through the echo of boos from the crowd, she said that this is the only time it is ok to get boos from the crowd! She ended her pre-encore set with the title track from the new album. She and her band then performed a 2-song encore, starting out with “True Blue”, a song by Boygenius, the trio she is in with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers. She ended the evening with “Night Shift” from her 2018 album Historian. Lucy Dacus is an incredible performer with a deep and loyal fan base with whom she shares a deep connection. It was an evening full of fun, intimate moments of love, and great music! Chicago-based indie rock band Slow Pulp opened the show and got the crowd warmed up with their dreamy and raw rock sounds. It was a great night all around!
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