1055. Wolf Trap 

Wolf Trap! The One and Only!! Mary Chapin Carpenter’s home venue, if you don’t count The Birchmere in downtown Alexandria, VA.

Well... uh... damn! Spectacular!! (some happy wood suppliers around there)

Wow that is like a sound stage in LA!!!!!

If it's Saturday, this must be Wolf Trap 😉

Nice open air venue. Nice stage and I see the back stage is very well accommodating for the road crew. So many nice features for all. A very well thought out design. I am impressed. I can only imagine the sound system. Have good show. Thanks for the tour

Hello, blind guy here: thanks very much for the audio cues you give as you’re walking. Appreciate it a lot. Take care…

With a bit of research I discovered that this venue was made possible by a donation from Catherine Filene Shouse who lived from 1896 to 1994 so reached the grand age of 98. She was a fascinating person and it is well worth looking her up on Wikipedia.

I’ve heard of Wolf Trap for years. How fun to actually see it. Gorgeous facility.

It’s amazing how steady you keep your camera while you walk. I guess that means you’re just smooooooooth. Thanks for allowing us all to live vicariously through you as you tour.

Beautiful Venue and your biggest Fan 😀 lol! Have fun 👍 Be safe 🙏 ❤️

Hey, Lee and all! Like Red Rocks, Wolf Trap is one of our national musical treasures. From my public radio days, I remember learning about this place as something of a hub for world-class performances during the summer-a bit like Tanglewood. I am happy to see this tradition upheld with you cats.

The Mamarazzi! 😄 "I rrrrrefuse to be fillumed!' Love the photo of Dolly. Great to see Lamont. Have really been digging the updates on his channel!

You ARE in VA... about 20min to 3hrs from downtown DC, depending on traffic. LOL That is a great venue... you will LOVE the acoustics. Absolute gem!!!

After your stint at City Winery, it must be nice to move around on a big stage again.

I am watching this while sitting on the Lawn at Wolf Trap waiting for the show!

Ceiling almost looks like the bracing inside of an acoustic guitar 😃😎👍 😎👍❤🖖 Love Brother

👋😁👋😁. Fascinating as always!!! 🎶"And though I'll never be there, I know what I would see there....🎶 Did not know that about Spinal Tap!

Wolf Trap is only 15 minutes down the road from me. One of my favorite venues. It's plunk in the middle of a residential community. I've seen dozens of shows there over the past 40 years or so. It is actually a Federal facility operated by the National Park Service, the only one of its kind in the country, I think. It has terrific acoustics. Thanks for the backstage tour.

Very cool venue always enjoy your videos such a great musician keep them coming

Great Tour Lee!!!!!

Quite amazing as to life on the road...all guts and glory. and little sleep.Again another amazing venue.I wish I could be at every one of these.Once you've seen the backstage pass views its really something to see the hard work that goes into this process. Professionals.Thank you again for taking the time to do this ,greatly appreciated. STAY safe,Be safe Leland Sklar I love the gaming room .PS I just found out Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt will be playing in my home town in September. Yahoo.

Open air and acoustically-designed wood paneling all round - this venue's acoustics must be stunning. Enjoy the show.

Slightly higher ceiling than City Winery. The Triptik continues!

Another amazing venue, I love all the natural wood both outside and inside this beautiful venue. ( lawn seating capacity is 3,200 - house seating capacity is 3,800 - pit capacity is up to 88 )

Amazing. Wolf Trap is every bit as impressive as I've heard. Thank you for another wonderful tour.

Great place !... and good food it would seem...

What an amazing place!!

Lee you are in Vienna, VA. Nice PLACE!!!!!

Thanks for the venue tours Lee. Look forward to them every day. Have a great show tonight my friend!

Hello Leland and everyone. Another beautiful and enjoyable walk around. Thank you for sharing this with us.

I love these venue tours. I look forward every afternoon for the next episode. Thanks Leland.

Fantastic venue. Wow! And I had no idea Russ was in Spinal Tap. I learn so much interesting stuff with you, Lee!

I am always listening for the dulcet lingering saxophone now :) Thanks for the tours, you are truly a pleasure. Cheers

So nice to visit this beautiful venue and go behind the scenes ….smiling faces are definitely a payoff as well! TY Leland

Hi Leland, thank you very much for this kind of videos! 😉

Thank you for taking on these preliminary visits to your venues; places I have read about but have never seen nor visited.

This is such a bittersweet night for me. I worked Wolf Trap when i was 18, best summer ever. Tonight is it first night back since Covid... And we're moving away. What a perfect night to say goodbye to my beloved Wild Trap!

What a fantastic venue. You get to play some great places. Good music as well! Life is sweet!

I love that venue. There is something special about it.

Thanks Lee for the detailed tour of Wolf Trap and the other venues. Wolf Trap is clearly a beast of a performance venue. Love the natural wood in the building. I am putting it on my bucket list.

“My biggest fan.” Never gets old!

Love this venue. Been there many times when I lived closer to it..really enjoyed seeing the back stage area.

WOW! Vienna, VA The Doobies did a great live recording there about twenty years ago. They did a warm-up show at our little 4K seat venue in Solomon's, MD the night before. Stay cool!

Lee, as a native of DC and a frequent visitor of Wolftrap (one show down and two still to go this summer) I can't tell you how much I appreciate the VIP behind the scenes. Yes, we all appreciate the venue but from your perspective, I now can clearly see how much the artists appreciate it as well. Those lower facilities are really amazing. Thank you!

The venue you are in now is the second iteration of Wolf Trap. The first burned to the ground in 1982. And, it is wonderfully managed by the National Park Service.

What a fantastic venue have a great time I love watching from about 20 years ago the Doobie Brothers at Wolf trap that is a fantastic captured concert great acoustics Great sound should be a fantastic show With the storms are long gone that terrible tragedy for that couple from Wisconsin hiding under the trees across from the White House at that Park and that huge lightning storm was almost 60 years celebration of their marriage

I was really missing these already! Thanks so much again!!

Thanks Leland. I've seen many shows at Wolf Trap thru the years, but only from the audience vantage point. Anyway.. Have a good show and stay hydrated, it's hot out there today.

Wow! Sprawling complex…huge….wonder what the capacity of such a place….Like a small city…..I suppose they serve,quite a large area…..thankfully certainly big enough to serve the Large Band…..Again,looks like the catering have done a first class appearance….always like to see you guys having access to great nutritional selections…..As always,Thank you Leland for a look at these amazing venues….Wishing you all a great show…Stay safe,and blessings to all the players and crew…..🌹🪷🌹🪷🌹🪷🌹🪷🕊🪬🕊🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻👍❤️🙏

It looks like a lovely venue

18:00 Your Don Henley comment cracked me up! It's great seeing the backstage area of this place that can't be 20 minutes away from me - wish I was going tonight, have a great show.

What a beautiful venue. Thanks as always for these tours. ❤️

Thanks for the tour, Lee! Though last saw you at Merriweather. Also great DC outdoor venue!

Bloody hell that's one big mother of a venue, amazingthanks for the tour .

Wow,, that's a magnificent looking venue. Never seen it before like the way you are showing it Leland. Thanks so much !! 👍👍

Evening Lee and all Greetings from a very sunny Evening,UK Cheers Barry 🎸

Wolf Trap is such a storied venue - I was a little surprised to see the “40th Anniversary Season” banner! I thought it had been there forever. Love these venue tours. Getting to see places I’ll probably never get to go to!

Thanks Leland for all the before the show tours. A PLUS

Cool venue, Leland, thank 😊 you! Enjoy this evening's gig at the Filene Center, Wolf Trap! Please 🙏 continue to hydrate nicely. . .it's quite warm and humid as you know. . .

I love and miss Wolf Trap! We used to go at least twice a year when we lived in the DC area (5 years in Vienna, VA; home of Wolf Trap--16 years total). I had no idea there was so much of the Filene Center unseen by the audience. Thanks for another wonderful peek behind the curtain! Slava Ukraini! Stay safe and stay well!

Amazing show tonight! It was hot and humid but both bands sounded incredible. Leland it was a thrill to hear you play live. I was in the front of the balcony and your tone was perfect. Nothing better than hearing world class musicians in a great venue. And Chris Isaak hasn’t lost a step - I saw his band in Atlanta 30 years ago with the same rhythm section. Thanks for a great night.

Nice tour, Lee! Have a great show tonight! Caught many great shows here when I lived in Northern Virginia - Elvis Costello, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and more. So many United States Marine Corp Band performances at Memorial Day, and the first December Sunday afternoon they do annual Christmas sing-along.

This place sounds very amazing! I like that there is a wellness center. Sounds like good food too!

Oh man, you are like the energizer bunny! If my math holds… leave the Philly gig around 11 pm, 3 hr bus ride to VA, check in at 2:30 am, and you’re bouncing around doing a pre-sound check vlog at 11 am?amazing! You are gonna need to sleep like Rip Van Winkle when the tour is over. And then the crew, because it never stops for them- that load out, load in over the last 12 hours had to be a tough one! Well, the show you all put on is amazing! Great time in Philly on Thursday. Enjoy Wolf Trap, I’m in MD so I get there fairly often. The “warehouse” with the music venue attached to it, is something to behold. 🎸🐶

I love how chill everyone is!! Very polite and just soaking in the day leisurely while working! Leland you are a treasure and love these behind the scene views you give us! Lots of love Leland!! ⚡🖕⚡

Keep up the great work

What a gorgeous venue. Holy F! I love the woodwork and how the ceiling is all baffled-off…for acoustics I presume.? I love these mini tours you post for us.

Love that high high ceiling above the stage ! I`ll bet the acoustics are super!

Bassist and documentarian! Thank you for showing that complex to us. I've read about and heard concerts from it for years, but we moved from the area before it was constructed, more's the pity. It's wonderful to see it all.

Oh boy am I embarrassed. I have several live recordings of different artist from The Wolf Trap and I always assumed it was an inside venue. Thanks for opening my eyes Leland.

Happy Saturday!!! Thanks Lee!!!

Beautiful venue. Thanks again for the tour

Its so beautiful so nice ...clean and organized. Pretty amazing 💗💓💗

Another amazing (semi) outdoor venue. I imagine it has well-balanced acoustics unlike the last venue. Have a great gig.

Beautiful place......Thank you for sharing...

Russ was in Spinal Tap?!?!?!?! I HAVE to watch it again just to find him!

Very beautiful photos on the walls. That whole place is fantastic. Thanks for the tour.

Yes you are in Virginia! So happy you all came out ... the Filene Center is in Wolftrap National Park. Hope you got to see some of the rest of the park. It is an oasis in the midst of this incredible growth of development outside of DC. Fantastic show!!!! Thank you all from coming to Wolftrap!!!! Y'all coming next year? We'll be there! ~Yuri We walk out there every morning. It is a treasure in every season. The paths through the woods along the creek are even nice on the most humid and hottest of the Virginia summer days. The wood behind Mace Hibbard is the old outside wood that was on the Filene Center until last year when they replaced all of the siding. I love that they saved some the used it inside. The interior was all redone these past two years. And man Wolftrap sure feeds you all well! Gosh thank you Leland for such a great tour of the backstage. You didn't show the new deck off of the big performers room. Very nice! Am I not supposed to mention that part? 💚💚💚

Hi Lee, welcome to my backyard here in Northern Virginia!! Been going to Wolftrap for years...decades...and find it to be one of my favorite outdoor venues. Wish we could have made the show tonight.

Wow, what a gorgeous place!

We will be in the audience TOMORROW at Freeman Arts pavilion. I can’t wait.😀

Looking forward to seeing the show tonight. We were there last night too and they were talking about a back stage tour, this would probably fill the bill too.

Many great bands have performed at the Wolf Trap. It is an awesome venue. Lyle should record the show for a future CD/DVD record. At least document the concert for memorial purposes. The Doobie Brothers made a very popular DVD of their concert at the Wolf Trap. What a magnificent venue you presented with your tour. Everything so green and lush, due to all that great music emanating from the concert hall. Thanks! Stay healthy and be safe!!

Looking forward to seeing the performance tonight!

Hello Lee! Just finished watching Phil Collins' First Farewell Tour via YT where you performed in Paris. Turned my volume up. The entire show was really awesome. And now, am watching your vlog. Good evening from Manila Philippines. Middle finger in the air!

Beautiful venue 🤩 Mary Chapin carpenter plays there alot. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend!

You missed a golden opportunity to do an epic Darth Vader impression into the Mother of all Fans. 😄

The world's greats have played Wolf Trap, including you, Lee.

Hopefully the laundry is all sorted out.

In bocca al lupo

Hi Leland. Thanks for the tour at Wolf Trap. We've never been there but hope to go in the future. Love the open air venues!! Take care, stay safe and God Bless You.

Have a great gig, Lee. I hope it's not too hot come showtime.

I love seeing these places! Thank you again!

OK. I saw the thumbnail, for this video with Steve the trumpeter. Then I saw the name Chris Isaak. How I confused Chris Isaak with Chris Botti....you got me. Let's just say I had a Gilda Radner, Emily Litella moment, "Never mind." And I will say thank you Mr. Sklar!!!

Wow, scenic place! Love the amphitheater with all the wood. You're biggest fan...eh!

Late yesterday afternoon it was announced in Australia that Judith Durham who was the lead singer of The Seekers passed away at 79 years of age. The Seekers really put Australian music on the world map with hits in England and America and at one stage outsold The Beatles. I just wanted to leave a comment because she was an Australian icon and set the pathway for many artists including Helen Reddy and Olivia Newton John. Her kindness will never be forgotten.🙏

America! 🇨🇦❤️

thanks for the tour! Like red rocks, this is a fascinating venue

Amazing venue ! Today's Joke : At the beginning the building had Filene Center . We have a new bus driver , looking for directions , he came up with Filene' s Basement . He dropped part of the tour at a mall about 20 miles from here . Then he drove off to eat ! LOL !