Jason Mraz at SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield

Jason Mraz was a member of the cheerleading squad, school chorus, and drama club while attending high school in Mechanicsville, Virginia. He starred as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and as Snoopy in a play about the Peanuts characters. After high school, Mraz briefly attended drama school in New York City and university in Farmville, Virginia, but in 1999 settled in San Diego, California. Mraz entered the music community as a roadie for the band Elgin Park and also performed weekly in a coffeehouse. Success hit with his second album in 2005. Mraz has sold over seven million albums and won two Grammy Awards, two Teen Choice Awards, a People's Choice Award and the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His sixth and most recent studio album, Know. -- a play on the previous album's title, Yes!  -- was released on August 10, 2018.

Following a three-month run as Dr. Pomatter in the Broadway musical Waitress this past February, Jason Mraz assembled his five-man/five-woman jumpsuit-clad band for a concert tour and returned to New York City tonight to perform at SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield. The name of the show was Good Vibes, and indeed this is what he transmitted to the audience, a feel-good experience brimming with a positive, uplifting spirit. Whether playing with the entire ensemble or scaling down to a few musicians on a handful of songs, an inherent cheerfulness was infectious and buoyed each song to higher ground, even when songs were drawn out extensively ("I'm Yours" was almost 10 minutes long). The breezy music had many influences, from soft pop to hip hop and reggae, and the musicians often were given opportunities to shine in the spotlight, but the centerpiece always remained the highly animated Mraz and his winning, genial personality. Mraz's charisma made the concert a perfect event for a hot summer evening.

Visit Jason Mraz at www.jasonmraz.com.

Setlist:

1. Love Someone
2. Might As Well Dance
3. Living in the Moment
4. Curbside Prophet / The Remedy (I Won't Worry)
5. Unlonely
6. New York, New York
7. Lucky
8. Make It Mine
9. I Take The Music
10. Sleeping to Dream
11. Browntown (Raining Jane cover)
12. Love Is Still the Answer
13. Unfold
14. 93 Million Miles
15. I Won't Give Up
16. Cafe Gratitude Happy Birthday Song
17. Have It All
18. Makin' It Up
19. I'm Yours