At their Monday afternoon show, Night Canopy made overcast music for an overcast day. The moods of the band and the audience seemed a little off from the start, and Night Canopy didn’t do itself any favors by beginning the set with a pair of moody, meandering songs that had fickle festival goers leaving to find something more upbeat. Even though Amy Blaschke, Nick deWitt and Seth Warren followed this slow start with “Seasick Casanova,” the charming opening track from Night Canopy’s debut album Of Honey and Country, the trio struggled to gain momentum throughout the show.

Not surprisingly, the band’s more upbeat, keyboard-based songs like “Boom! It’s Spring” and “Signs of Life” fared better in the festival setting. Blaschke’s voice was as hauntingly, throatily gorgeous in person as it is on record, particularly on “Pine Box,” one of the few ballads that really worked. “Tell Me You Been Lyin’” benefited from Warren’s violin, adding enough rustic color to keep the song from disappearing entirely. But it was former Pretty Girls Make Graves drummer deWitt, who played guitar, percussion and sometimes both at once, who added the most to any cohesion the show had.

Blaschke closed the show by playing a solo acoustic song, introducing it with a matter-of-fact “I’ll do this one by myself so we can fill our timeslot” that underscored the afternoon’s feeling of disappointment; however, the song’s hypnotic simplicity actually made it one of the concert’s most affecting moments. There were a few moments of fully realized beauty during the show - and that was a shame, because Night Canopy is capable of so much more. Unfortunately, this was just a textbook case of a frustrating concert happening to a talented band.