Matisyahu and the Wailers

I went to the Matisyahu concert at Ravinia last night. The Wailers opened at about 7:50 (I didn't get there til about 8:05 thanks to trying to find parking at Michael's) and played until about 8:30. They played a few new songs but mostly familiar Bob Marley classics, including "Is This Love?" and they finished up with "Jammin'". I'm really looking forward to their new cd, whenever it comes out. They definitely had the crowd hopping (literally), which only filled about half the Pavilion. It didn't fill in completely until the second song by Matisyahu. He also played a new song and announced he's been recording with his band and that we should be expecting a new album sometime soon. My issue with the majority of the concert was that he only played for about an hour and a half and a good chunk of that time was the band just jamming. We did get the ability to hear some of his beatboxing that he's well-known for doing. The night closed, sorta, with Matis allowing fans to join him on the stage. It turned into the entire stage being jam-packed with fans. At one point, a few fans went crowd-surfing. At the end of the song, Matis and his band left the stage for it to be cleared. After five minutes, someone who works for Ravinia picked up a microphone and announced that Matis would come out for an encore song if everyone would take a step back from the stage. Another five minutes went by and this time, Matisyahu came out on stage and asked the crowd to take a step back. Shortly thereafter, he began singing King Without A Crown. Not more than thirty seconds passed when some idiot decided it'd be fun, or maybe he thought it'd be funny or cool, to run across the stage. Instantly the volume of the music dropped and then stopped entirely. The house lights went up (response: lots of boos) and the concert was over. What a downer to the end of a great night at Ravinia.