Photo Credit: Si Chen
Timeflies was the headline group at Program Board's 2013 Fall Fest.
Editor's Note: This story comes to us from our colleagues at the WRGW Music Department.
Despite a moderate turnout for the annual Labor Day weekend concert, this year’s edition of Fall Fest, featuring mashup artist DJ Earworm and pop duo Timeflies, still managed to electrify University Yard.
Opening act DJ Earworm is a San Francisco-based artist
best known for his annual “United States of Pop” series, which combines the 25
biggest songs of the year. He is the second mashup artist on the Fall Fest
stage in the last three years, with Girl Talk, the first, having headlined the
2011 event.
Kicking things off with a mix of Lana Del Rey’s single
“Summertime Sadness” and One Direction’s hit “What Makes You Beautiful” over an
electronic backing track, Earworm strung together songs spanning genres, styles
and eras, always looking to surprise the audience with the diverse selection of
songs combined.
After a short break in between sets,
University Yard began to fill up for the headliner, Timeflies, a duo consisting
of two Tufts University alums, producer Rob Resnick and vocalist Cal Shapiro.
During the duo’s set, Shapiro free-styled to topics that audience members
provided, which included the Boston Celtics, Washington Redskins quarterback
Robert Griffin III and sorority Alpha Phi.
The centerpiece of the performance was a
well-researched shout-out to the university, including mentions of losing a
fake ID at McFadden’s and food from Jumbo Slice and GW Deli.
The duo engaged the crowd throughout their
set with raps set to choruses from popular songs, and they finished the show with
their impassioned single “I Choose U,” which has garnered almost 1 million
plays on Spotify.
