12 Photos Of Maggie Rogers’ Feral Joy Tour Ending On A High Note

Maggie Rogers, the 28-year-old Grammy nominee whose career bloomed in 2016 after a video of a stunned Pharrell Williams listening to her song “Alaska” went viral, closed out her Feral Joy Tour on March 5, 2023.

“San Francisco is my favorite place in the entire world to play,” Rogers told her fans inside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.

A graduate of Harvard and New York University, Rogers opened the concert at 9:01 p.m. with “Overdrive,” the first track on her latest album, Surrender.

Since her viral video in 2016, Rogers performed on SNL in 2018, earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 2019, sang during the Democratic National Convention in 2020, attended Harvard starting in 2021, and rocked Coachella in 2022.

Rogers invited opener Del Water Gap (Samuel Holden Jaffe) onstage to perform “New Song.” They belted the heartbreak lyrics under green lights in one of the most emotional moments of the set.

Rogers and Jaffe wrote “New Song” years ago when they were students at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.

Though the show sparked joy, Rogers reminded her fans that, “There’s no joy without getting f*cking mad sometimes,” after performing “Symphony” and before singing “I’ve Got A Friend.”

Among the night’s many highlights was Rogers passionately delivering the bridge to “Anywhere With You” while staring into the camera that projects her zoomed-in face onto the big screen behind her.

That bridge: “Would you tell me if I ever started holding you back? / Would you talk me off the guard rail of my panic attack? / Look me straight in my center and tell me from the heart / Are you ready to start?”

The loudest singalongs were reserved for fan-favorite songs “Light On,” “Alaska,” and “That’s Where I Am.”

Rogers also got the crowd dancing when she mashed up Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” with her song “The Knife.”

For her final song in the encore, Rogers fittingly ended with “Different Kind of World,” which starts with these lyrics: “One last song, I’ll sing a song, and make it a song for peace.”