Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds brought the annual Greenwich Town Party to a close on Saturday night, offering an extended set in the rain for the local patrons who had congregated at the Connecticut town’s Roger Sherman Baldwin Park. Matthews’ inclusion as a headliner was a fitting nod for the festival’s 15^th year—in 2012, he made a surprise appearance at the nascent event, offering an afternoon set before performing with the rest of the Dave Matthew Band in Hartford, Conn. later in the evening.

Matthews and Reynolds’ acoustic show closed out an eclectic mix of acts, including main stage marquee names John Fogerty and Preservation Hall Jazz Band and local stage entertainers The Moonrise Cartel, HOMEGROWN, Kovac Brothers, MOJO and Starpose. The Elmo’s Got the Moves Show, featuring some beloved Sesame Street characters and a DJ, entertained younger fans as well.

Pres Hall, who perform at the festival most years and headlined with a SuperJam in 2023, kicked off their show with the traditional “Lord, Lord, Lord” and blended originals with New Orleans classics. During a segue from Professor Longhair’s “Go to the Mardi Gras” into “Keep Your Head Up,” they also nodded to the inclement weather with a well-received “Rain Rain, Go Away” interpolation.

Returning to the event for the first time since 2016, John Fogerty performed with a band that included his sons Shane and Tyler, running through the greatest hits set that he’s been sticking to on the road recently. The high-energy performance commenced with “Bad Moon Rising” and featured Creedance Clearwater Revival classics “Green River,” “Born on the Bayou” and “Fortunate Son,” as well solo hits like “Centerfield.” Two of his tunes, which he regularly plays, felt particularly appropriate given the steady downpour—“Who’ll Stop the Rain” and “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” He also discussed reclaiming the rights to his back catalog from the stage and showed a short video on his career and the surreal experience of being sued for sounding too much like Creedance before the set began. (Fogerty was honored at Radio City Music Hall during a BMI event where they showed the same video on Wednesday and will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame next month.)

Matthews and Reynolds walked on stage for the event-closing set to some Khruangbin on the house PA after being introduced by ESPN’s Hannah Storm. They kicked things off with “Bartender” and nodded to various eras of the DMB catalog, though they mostly stuck to material off classics like 1996’s Crash and 1994’s Under the Table and Dreaming. Matthews also offered three songs from his lone solo effort, 2003’s Some Devil, “So Damn Lucky,” “Some Devil” and “Stay or Leave,” while Reynolds chose Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” for his acoustic instrumental interlude. At the end of the show, the members of Preservation Hall Jazz Band returned to the stage to join the duo for an up-tempo take on “Ants Marching,” a tune they have regularly joined Matthews on during their various sit ins over the years.