Bluesfest: Sleigh Bells

Brooklyn dance-rockers Sleigh Bells, unlike many dance-rockers, seem to favour the latter half of the equation. They plunked a mass of speakers on the River Stage, a gaggle of smoke machines and a blinding light machine and went at it.

Here we are before things went boom with touring guitarist Jason Boyer.



How many of those were turned on?



Smokey action!



Here's a blurry Allison Krauss and guitarman Derek E. Miller.



Just for the record, that is not my hand.



Things were really past the limits of my point-and-shoot.



Then I went off to see Charles Bradley, about whom I've already posted.