Maggie Rogers @ TD Garden by Wendy Schiller

Bostonians love two things: the Celtics and Maggie Rogers, and as her sold out show at TD Garden proved, Maggie understood the assignment. Continuing in her tour tradition of swapping out the Knicks line in “So Sick of Dreaming” with a nod to the home team, she kicked off the start of the NBA season shouting out the C’s and creating an uproar probably heard from outside the arena.

Having lived in and around Boston as a grad student, Maggie Rogers has made herself Boston’s poet laureate. She’s just like us! She goes to shows, she loves the negronis at Pammy’s, and she watches the moon rise over the Fells with her friends. Despite her astronomical rise to superstardom, Maggie remains relatable in a way that could only happen here. 

As for the show: Maggie transformed the Garden from cavernous and gargantuan into something that felt small and private, with spoken word slideshows and video clips interspersing the more energetic portions of her set. “Want Want” and “On & On & On” made the room jump, while stripped down versions of “All the Same” and “Alaska” brought it back to earth. Along with plenty from her past three albums, she included a touching tribute to Liam Payne, weaving in a cover of One Direction’s “Night Changes” during her piano interlude for “I Still Do”, that absolutely brought all 19,580 people in the stands to their knees. She was supported on tour by Ryan Beatty. 

Check out all of Wendy’s photos from the show below.