Front Row · A fan’s 20 years with Pat Metheny

February 13, 2005 Pat Metheny Group

The Way Up, opening night

American Music Theatre, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

The Way Up tour opened quietly. The Lancaster date never appeared on the Pat Metheny Group website; Sean learned about it from a late email to the PMG Listener Network, about three weeks before the show.

“I had the great pleasure to attend a concert presented by the Pat Metheny Group on Sunday, February 13, 2005 at The American Music Theater in Lancaster, PA. The concert was the first date of a tour to promote the group’s new recording, The Way Up.”

That year Sean was also part of the PMG Street Team for The Way Up.

Silhouetted audience members in front of a blue-lit stage during a Pat Metheny Group concert in Brighton, England, 2005
Context photo, not from Sean’s archive: Photo: Thegn at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Photo coming from Sean’s archive

  • Your PMG Street Team material from 2005: member card, email, poster or shirt, in the original file from Google Photos or a fresh phone scan
  • Any photo or ticket from the Lancaster show on February 13, 2005 (original resolution, not a screenshot)