Photo gallery: Dispatch w/ John Butler, G. Love & Special Sauce, and Donavon Frankenreiter | 06.24.25, Saint Louis Music Park

Photo of Chadwick Stokes of Dispatch by Karl Beck

For most of the last three decades, Boston’s Dispatch has offered up the kind of music perfectly tuned to a sweltering summer night in St. Louis: rootsy acoustic folk inflected with sunny reggae and ska vibes. Touring behind their latest album (Yellow Jacket, released earlier this month on Bomber Records/AWAL Recordings; stream it here!), singer/guitarist Chadwick Stokes and multi-instrumentalist Brad Corrigan played three of the new tracks, with “the moon and the seven seas” seeing its live debut. The band’s most beloved song, the anti-war-themed “The General,” came toward the end of the main set, stretching out to seven minutes with an extended crowd singalong. The encore wrapped up with a run through Bob Dylan’s immortal “Like a Rolling Stone.”

Joining Dispatch on the tour are American-born, Australian-raised roots rocker John Butler and the hip-hop-inflected grooves of G. Love & Special Sauce, and surf-rocking singer-songwriter Donavon Frankenreiter. | Jason Green