We're Glad It Happened: Enrose Takes Over Philly and NYC
- SoundCheck Team
- 17 hours ago
- 4 min read
Article and Photos Contributed by Rebecca McDevitt & LJ Portnoy
There are shows you go to for fun, and then there are shows that remind you exactly why live music matters. Across two back-to-back nights, Philadelphia at MilkBoy and New York City at Berlin, Enrose created something you could feel long after the last note.
Some of the SoundCheck Mag team was there, cameras in hand, shooting side by side. Two perspectives on the same magic. And yeah, we're glad it happened.
Philly: Shoulder-to-Shoulder, Heart-to-Heart
MilkBoy was completely packed, the kind of packed where you're pressed up against the stage, surrounded by strangers who somehow feel like friends by the end of the night.
Wallace Tonight kicked things off with a gritty, unapologetic rock and roll energy that set the tone immediately. But what stopped us in our tracks was their drummer, a woman commanding that kit with a precision and power that carried the entire set. She held that stage. She deserved every second of it.
Then Ang and the Damn Band shifted the atmosphere entirely. Ang's vocals cut through the room with both strength and vulnerability.
The moment that stopped everything: a cover of Yungblud's "Changes," dedicated to someone she had recently lost. Every single person in that venue started screaming the chorus back together until it stopped being a cover and started being something else entirely. A release. A shared exhale.
NYC: A Sold-Out Homecoming
By the time we made it to New York City, the energy had only grown. Berlin was sold out, packed wall-to-wall with a crowd that was more than ready.
Opening the night was Parris Mitchell, and finally seeing him live was everything we hoped for. Him and his entire band took the crowd and ran with it, engaging, silly, and completely unbothered by taking themselves too seriously. His set is the kind that sneaks up on you until you realize you've been smiling the entire time. And "Honey, I"? Still stuck in our heads.
Enrose: The Main Event
From the second Gabi Rose stepped on stage, both nights felt like they belonged to her.
Opening with "Glad It Happened" set the tone for everything that followed: reflective, powerful, and completely immersive.
Gabi is the kind of performer who doesn't stay confined to the stage. She told stories between songs, created moments of audience participation that felt natural and never forced, and jumped into the crowd to dance, to sing, to just let the sax take her wherever it needed to go. Every note moved through her first, pure conviction over performance.
She connected with her audience in a way that made every lyric feel like it was being said directly to you and somehow to everyone at once. The room wasn't watching, it was part of it.
Kit, Nick, Dan and Val: More Than a Band
This is Gabi's project, her vision, her voice, her sax. But what was unmistakable across both nights is that Kit, Nick, Dan, and Val aren't just musicians playing her songs. They're her people.
Enrose at MilkBoy & Berlin in Philadelphia, PA & New York, NY. | (Photography by @LJPortnoy & @RebeccaJeanLimitedPhotography)
Nick is the kind of musician who'll make you laugh one second and completely floor you the next. Kit brought a quiet warmth to every moment, deeply present, the kind of talent that doesn't need to announce itself. Val on bass was the anchor the whole thing moved around, holding the floor steady so everyone else could fly. And Dan behind the kit was a full performance in himself, explosive when the song called for it and impossibly delicate when it didn't.
The setlist they carried with her: "Delusional," "Tattoo," "Therapy," "Not A Barbie," and their newest release "Take Care," which already feels like it belongs at the core of their live show.
Let's Talk About the Sax
The saxophone deserves a permanent spot in modern music, and Gabi Rose is making the case better than anyone right now. She picks it up and disappears into it. The sound she pulls out is bold and cinematic one moment, tender and searching the next. After two nights of watching it live, one thing is clear: we want more sax. Everywhere. Immediately.
The SoundCheck Take
These were two nights of connection, energy, and moments that reminded us why we keep showing up for live music in the first place.
Every time some of us are in the room with Gabi Rose, the feeling is the same: something is happening here that you don't want to miss. She transformed both rooms with her sax, her songs, and a presence that made everyone fall in love simultaneously, with the music, with the feeling, with what it means to be surrounded by people all feeling the same thing at once.
That's Enrose. Go find them. Go see them. Let the sax take you somewhere.
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