Glen Phillips of Toad the Wet Sprocket

Glen Phillips
of Toad the Wet Sprocket

Saturday, December 7, 2024 @ 8PM

As lead singer and main songwriter of Toad the Wet Sprocket, Glen Phillips helped to create the band’s elegant folk/pop sound with honest, introspective lyrics that forged a close bond with their fans. When Toad went on hiatus, Glen launched a solo career with his album Abulum, and stayed busy collaborating with other artists on various projects including “Mutual Admiration Society”, with members of Nickel Creek and Remote Tree Children, an experimental outing with John Morgan Askew.

Phillips’ previous solo record, Swallowed By The New, was about grief, a post-divorce outing while There Is So Much Here finds Phillips writing love songs again focusing on gratitude, beauty and staying present. “With this batch of songs, I noticed I was writing hopeful music again. I’d turned the corner and was more interested in curiosity and play than I was in gazing at my navel. I was finally in a state of being that wasn’t about grief and loss. Things felt doable and even exciting again.”