Toad the Wet Sprocket

Toad the Wet Sprocket • The Jayhawks • Sixpence None the Richer • July 28, 2025 • Red Butte Garden Amphitheater

Reviewed and Photographed by Kevin Rolfe

Photo Credit: Kevin Rolfe

Toad the Wet Sprocket brought their Good Intentions 2025 Tour to the beautiful Red Butte Garden Amphitheater on Monday, July 28.  The Jayhawks and 90s contemporaries, Sixpence None the Richer, joined them.  Red Butte Garden Amphitheater was sold out and filled with concertgoers on blankets before the show.  People were eating, drinking, and conversing as the excitement grew for the concert.  Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman, Glen Phillips, last appeared in Utah at the Capitol Theater on a co-headlining acoustic tour with John Craggie.  That was a great night of storytelling and music.  He told us then that he would be back this summer with the band.  I heard a number of people talking about that show and how much they enjoyed it.  They also included how much they were looking forward to seeing the full band on this tour.

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Sixpence None The Richer

Sixpence None The Richer • December 4, 2024 • The State Room

Reviewed and Photographed by Kevin Rolfe

Photo Credit: Kevin Rolfe

The Fall into Winter concert calendar in Utah can be a little thin.  After a Summer filled with multiple shows to choose from on a nightly basis, concerts can be more difficult to come by as tours slow down around the holidays and end of the year. So when I saw that Alternative Rock band, Sixpence None The Richer would be playing The State Room in Salt Lake City, I thought, well there’s a show worth checking out.  I figured I’d know a handful of songs and if anything it would be a night of nostalgia.  Reliving some of my life’s soundtrack from the late 90s and early 2000s.  And while there was a bit of that.  I was surprised when I realized the show was much more than that.

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