
By the end of Andrew Bird 's show Saturday night (April 11, 2009) at the State Theater in downtown Minneapolis you could have heard a pin drop. It wasn't as though nobody was cheering because it was bad, for anybody who's seen an Andrew Bird show before knows how amazing he is live. It was his double encore featuring the mesmerizing "Weather Systems" that put the crowd in a state of comatose as the man went to work with his violin and beautiful voice. But as any good night begins, the opening act has to deliver as well. Haley [...]