Strand of Oaks is no newcomer to the music scene despite being new to so many music fans, but the secret’s out as Globe Hall had been sold out weeks prior. The place was packed with mid-thirties to 40 year old music connoisseurs, and they were justifiably excited.
The term “suspension of disbelief” has been referred to as an audience’s willingness to overlook the implausibility of a premise or narrative in favor of entertainment. Case in point: Folk singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson, also known as The Tallest Man on Earth, is 30, married and Swedish. He’s also not particularly tall, much less the tallest (Google suggests he is 5’7″). Yet, at Matsson’s show at the Ogden Theatre last Saturday, you could have sworn people were there to see the Paul Bunyan-Woody Guthrie equivalent of Justin Timberlake.