Band Ben Folds Five Plays Live Show At The Pearl

Ben Folds Five put on an amazing live performance of their unique brand of piano alt rock last night at The Pearl at Palms. This was the first time the band has played a full live show in Las Vegas since 1999.

Ben Folds Five are back with a new album more than a decade after the trio first said farewell. The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind, featuring Ben Folds (piano), Darren Jessee (drums) and Robert Sledge (bass), makes it plain that the years apart have only served to amplify the band’s already estimable gifts. Songs like the ebullient first single, “Do It Anyway,” or drummer Jessee’s elegiac “Sky High” illustrate an increased subtlety as well as a soulfulness born of a truly inimitable group dynamic. 

Photos credit Edison Graff.