Concert review

Nursing a cold which is still in the getting worse stages. Ungh. But hasn't stopped me from biking. Am enjoying my daffodils,
Last night we went to see Grasstowne. Natural Drift was the opening act.  ND played for about half an hour, and then Grasstowne came on.  The whole evening was most entertaining. I was surprised at the age of the crowd, it was a pretty old group. We were about the youngest folks there, except for the band members.
I'll follow the format they often use on the sports page when rating football games, using my observations from the previous ND concert. Both bands have same five instruments, bass, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar. GT all male voices, ND malse plus one female voice.
Costumes:  GT=F, ND=A.  GT: Three band members looked like they were wearing their Saturday chore clothes, old shirts with the tails hanging out and faded jeans. One wore a black shirt hanging out. The mandolin player wore jeans and a nice shade blue shirt and black vest.  He was the only one that looked at all spiffy.  ND: Men in dark suits, ties, and cowboy hats, Samantha in boots and skirt with western flair.
Stage presence: GT=F, ND = A.  GT: the five band members were spread out across the stage with the bass in back.  Members did not share mics and hardly related to each other, or did so in an extremely low key way.  None of them projected much personality. Hardly ever smiled. Didn't seem like they were having fun, more like they were just doing a job.  Two of them in particular seemed bored to be there. Only two members of the band even spoke to the audience.  GT: All of them look like they are having fun. In fact they seem to be having a great time. Samantha bobs around and smiles.  The group shares microphones and are constantly relating to each other, forming different duets and trios depending on whether they are doing vocals or instrumentals. Everyone in the group makes an effort to engage the audience and speaks at different times to the audience.
Vocals: GT=F, ND=B.  Note my friend Pam liked the main GT vocalist, but I did not.  I thought his voice was overamplified and I really did not care for the style at all.    With ND, even though they sing some things with a country twang, with Samantha their vocals are generally quite a bit more interesting, often singing three part harmonies. Samantha has an interesting voice, being just about in the tenor range.
Musicianship. GT=A, ND=A.  Both bands have very compentent players and on average were pretty equal.  The mandolin player for GT is phenomonal, but everyone else seemed pretty average.
Repetoire: GT=D (for all the George Jones songs- way too much country for my taste).  ND=An entertaining mix of songs.
Overall: would not go see GT again, would go see ND again.