Last night, drummer Jon Fishman and Guster singer/guitarist Adam Gardner joined the Pete Kilpatrick Band at Portland, ME’s Brick South at Thompson’s Point during a stop on Bernie Sanders’ Fight the Oligarchy Tour. The two musicians, who are both based in Maine, sat in with Pete Kilpatrick Band throughout their entire performance, which focused on Guster material but also nodded to the other musicians’ catalogs. Fishman was the third member of Phish Gardner has collaborated with: Page McConnell recorded with Guster on 1999’s Lost and Gone Forever, and Mike Gordon sat in with the band in both Vermont in 2022 and at the Bourbon & Beyond festival this past September.

The early evening performance kicked off with Guster classics “Ramona” and “Amsterdam,” before moving into David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” and a mashup of Guster’s “Center of Attention” and Phish’s “Bouncing Around The Room.”  (Guster famously did a mashup of the two songs, as well as “Waterfalls” and “Rio,” on March 26, 2000.) The ensemble then performed the Kilpatrick original “Coming Home” and Guster’s crossover track “Satellite,” closing the performance with a take on Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” 

Guster will kick off their summer string of dates in Chicago on June 26.