Live Shows
From festival stages to intimate venues — catch Strangers You Know where the energy is loud and the music is louder.
Past Performances
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May 2016
Hangout Music Festival
Gulf Shores, Alabama — Strangers You Know joined the 2016 lineup for a sun-soaked weekend on the coast.
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Mar 2015
The Date Shed
Indio, California — The band performed "Other People" live at this desert venue, captured in a March 2015 feature.
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Feb 2015
Cal State Fullerton
Fullerton, California — A live performance of "More Than We Have" was documented on campus in February 2015.
Festival Highlight
Hangout Fest 2016
In December 2015, Strangers You Know was announced as part of the Hangout Music Festival 2016 lineup in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The festival brought together major acts and rising artists for a weekend on the beach, and the duo's addition was covered by Crescent Vale in their artist preview series.
From the sun-baked shores of Gulf Shores to the intimate corners of California desert venues, every live show is a chance to reshape the energy in the room. The setlist shifts night to night, pulling from a catalog that spans indie-folk warmth and electro-funk pulse. There is no script beyond the songs themselves; each performance becomes a conversation between the band and the crowd, where a quiet verse can swell into a chorus that feels like a collective exhale. That unpredictability is what makes a live set memorable.
Festival stages offer a particular kind of electricity—open air, wide horizons, and a crowd that has traveled from everywhere to be there. Under the sun or beneath festival lights, the music carries differently when the sky is the ceiling. The band feeds on that open energy, letting arrangements breathe and stretch beyond their recorded versions. A song written in a small room suddenly fills a field, and the moment becomes something no studio capture could ever replicate.
Smaller venues tell a different story entirely. In a club or a campus hall, the distance between performer and listener collapses. You can see the fretwork, catch the eye contact between band members, feel the kick drum in your chest. These shows are where the raw edges of the music show—the unpolished transitions, the spontaneous banter, the occasional wrong note that becomes part of the night's charm. It is live music at its most human, and that vulnerability is exactly what keeps people coming back.
Every performance leaves behind more than a memory—it becomes part of the band's ongoing narrative. Fans capture phone footage, trade setlists, recount the moment a favorite song took on new life. These stories accumulate, show after show, building a shared history between the musicians and the people who show up. Whether it is a major festival slot or a Tuesday night in a small room, each date on the calendar is a chance to add another chapter. The live show is where the music truly lives.
