Flyte Setlist

Emily and Me
Losing You
Even on Bad Days
Alabaster
I’m So Down
Perfect Dark
White Roses
Amy
Defender
Love Is an Accident
Cathy Come Home
Everyone’s a Winner
Tough Love
Archie, Marry Me (Alvvays cover)
— Encore —
Mistress America
Faithless
Speech Bubble

Ken Pomeroy Setlist

Days Getting Darker
Wrango
Bound to Rain
Three Dogs
Cicadas
Bullseye
Lose
Coyote

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■ Flyte
Flyte (Will Taylor and Nicolas Hill) are recording artists from London, England, known for their crafted and often confessional songwriting style. After extensive touring of Europe and North America, Flyte teamed back up with Andrew Sarlo at London’s Konk (recording studio), to record their pared back, self titled third record, inspired by Taylor’s relationship with partner and artist Billie Marten. It featured artists such as Laura Marling, Bombay Bicycle Club and Madison Cunningham.

With the sprawling Art-A-Whirl weekend, and a stunning and truly beautiful conditions, you could be forgiven if you would have guessed that everyone used up their live music allotment during the day. But, au contraire! Heading into a satisfyingly cool evening, St. Paul’s Turf Club welcomed a pair of folk bands into the venue with opener Ken Pomeroy and British headliner Flyte taking the stage for a well attended show.

Ken Pomeroy (full name McKennan Pomeroy) kicked the evening off right. The Cherokee native and Tulsa, Oklahoma based artist is a singer, songwriter and guitarist. She has a pair of albums including 2025’s Cruel Joke. Her sound is in the Americana red dirt sound (that was a new term to me, a sub-genre of country that is literally tied to the red soil of Oklahoma and associated most with Bob Childers). The trio (vocals/guitar, guitar, and banjo) was a reserved affair, as they were seated in a row. Days Getting Darker was a good start from the recent record, but Pomeroy was going to press the bounds with newer music on this tour. Wrango was about a beloved adopted dog even though it bites, and I think that speaks to a place that many of us have been. Bound to Rain was so gorgeous with that mix of strings (both guitars were acoustic) and was fantastic. Three Dogs was off the new, though currently unreleased, album (scheduled to be released in early 2027), that they recorded in Chicago at the Wilco loft and it continued that pure Americana feel. The song from the Reservation Dogs show, Cicadas, was a moment where the then 20(!) year old was about to give up on music, but “I’m glad I didn’t”. Pomeroy mentioned that she would be back in Minneapolis in early July for her first headlining tour, and we’ll look forward to that. Ending on Coyote, it was a song written for her mamaw (who will turn 97 later this month!), and Ken Pomeroy (after one last tuning) had gained a lot of interest as the line for merch between sets was extremely long.

Headliner Flyte was up next. The band name for London based duo Will Taylor and Nicholas Hill, Flyte has been at it for over a decade, with four albums, including 2025’s Between You and Me. Initially supposed to be at Turf Club in November 2025, visa issues made the band re-schedule, and it was great to have them finally here. It was also the final stop of their North American tour, which always puts an X factor into the performance. The band appeared as a quartet (vocals/guitar, vocals/bass, guitar/keyboards, and drums) and was in their indie folk sound and it was easy to see why there had been the pairing with Ken Pomeroy. This was a laid back folk rock and Flyte had a full crowd at the front of the stage. Even on Bad Days was an exemplar of their sound, with a quiet overall tone, but with a plaintive feel beneath it. A switch of guitar for Taylor to electric had a more indie folk rock feel for Alabaster and those dual harmonies with Hill were great and an outro with a little more reverb leveled it up. We lost the fourth member which left us Taylor and Hill and drummer for a quieter tune in I’m So Down, and it came off wonderfully. Some banter during a tuning was about the denied visas. It was a very kind telling of something they could have been very peeved about, but instead showed a lot of resilience for the band. Clicking on a cassette to give a little backing music, Flyte added an interesting layer of nearly electronic music to support the quartet and it really worked.

A switch back to acoustic had Taylor tell us of his grandfather “a very English man, who lost his eye in the War…taught physics at Oxford…very autistic”. The song written for that funeral also ended up on episodes of the UK reality show Love Island, and White Roses was a true beaut that let Hill fly high with his supporting harmonies. Telling us that they lived with the band The Staves during lockdown, they played the crunchiest number of the evening and it had both Taylor and Hill fully into the moment. Flyte had hit a plateau and were holding steady, with a run of truly beautiful numbers. Those guitar strums were meaningful, if that makes a lick of sense. The crowd at the Turf Club understood and erupted at the end of each of those songs. Love Is an Accident had the keys in brilliant support and the lyrics of “accidents will happen” was very pure. They jumped back to the first album in Cathy Come Home, moving across tempos and rhythms in a great display of technical workmanship and the closing a cappella harmonies hit. Tough Love was another fine guitar heavy number and if you like this genre, Flyte is a band you should be tracking down. The main set ended with a cover of Archie, Marry Me, a very good vocal number. The band had made clear they would be back, and were quickly back up they came for the encore. We got a short summary of the their tour during a final tuning, ending with the band being here. Mistress America hit to the core of everything that is going on, and the audience singing along with the band was an antidote to all the hate out in the world right now. Faithless was vocally complex and almost a gospel number and when they ended on Speech Bubble, Flyte had finished their tour on the highest of high notes.