The Lumineers is a not a band that should work in a stadium.

The New Jersey-formed group’s nuanced, soulful and literate kind of contemporary folk certainly makes a larger aesthetic footprint than, say, a coffee house, but it would not seem to be a good fit in front of tens of thousands in a place where baseball is usually played. Then again, we said much the same thing as Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites have taken the band to amphitheaters and arenas during their 20 years together, not only selling out the likes of the Pine Knob Music Theatre and Little Caesars Arena but also delivering commanding performances in those settings.

So maybe it shouldn’t have been surprising that they scored a decisive win on Saturday night, Sept. 13, delivering 26 songs during just over two hours in fr

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