So just this week I saw all this buzz online about Noah Kahan’s Fenway show, right? The title said guests shared the stage with him that night, but nobody was naming names. Figured I’d find out for myself. Easy enough, I thought. Famous show, huge stadium. Info’s gotta be everywhere.
Started simple, just like always. Went straight to the venue’s official site first thing Monday morning. Scrolled through the Fenway Park events page forever. Found Noah Kahan’s date, clicked it… bupkis. Just his name, the date, ticket links. Zero mention of any special guests, not even a tiny hint. Felt like hitting a brick wall right off the bat.
Alright, time for plan B then. Dove headfirst into social media chaos. Twitter was a total mess – hashtags #NoahKahanFenway flooded with shaky phone clips of his setlist. Nothing useful. Reddit? Worse. Dozens of posts arguing about parking prices and what the merch line looked like. Took me thirty minutes just sorting threads hoping for one solid clue. Found one dude claiming he saw Olivia Rodrigo backstage, but no proof, no pics. Felt fishy.
Then I remembered: Local news sites sometimes cover this stuff. The Boston Globe’s music section, DigBoston, even WBZ local entertainment. Checked all three Tuesday afternoon. Zilch. Coverage just repeated the basic facts – Noah Kahan played Fenway. One lousy sentence buried deep about it being a “special night.” Special how? No details. Felt super frustrating.
Wednesday rolled around, almost ready to give up. Went old school. Pulled up Noah Kahan’s official Instagram, scrolled allll the way back past show dates before Fenway. Saw his tour photos from months ago, random posts about new tracks… then bam. Hit gold about 20 posts down. A blurry IG story dump buried under birthday wishes and merch drops – three pics from Fenway’s crew section. Posted two days AFTER the show, like it was nothing.
First pic: Noah Kahan belting a tune alone. Second pic: crowd lighters waving. Third pic? That’s the ticket. Him grinning ear-to-ear, mic pointed towards… James Bay! Just standing there casually leaning on a piano. Third one? Grace Potter walked right up to them both mid-song. Confirmed it easily: Bay’s IG had pics posing backstage same night tagged “#Fenway”, Potter’s stories had shaky clips of her harmony vocals during “Homesick”. Simple as that.
The whole thing taught me something obvious:
- Official sources are useless for juicy tour deets
- Social media is loud noise unless you comb hard
- Artist’s own feeds hide stuff under piles of fluff
- Post-show leaks are where truth lives
Put two hours of my evening into those IG scrolls. All that legwork just to see James Bay grinning near a piano and Grace Potter belting backup. Shoulda been headline news, but nobody made it easy. So there you have it. That’s the messy, annoying, “why didn’t they just SAY so” way I dug up Fenway night’s guests. Exhausting, but got the job done.
