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Cold weather does not deter the country music fan and there are plenty of concerts to choose from to keep the blood pumping. Mega star Luke Bryan kicked off his “That’s My Kind of Night” tour with Lee Brice and protege Cole Swindell with a sold out show in Columbus last week. I’m sure most ladies would agree, “Who needs hot weather when we have Luke?” Right?
Recent K99.1FM “Unplugged” artist Chase Rice follows up his huge appearance earlier this week in the Miami Valley with concerts at Brick Street Bar in Oxford next month, then a return trip to the Miami Valley with Billy Currington and Brett Eldredge at Troy’s Hobart Arena in March. “King” George Strait makes his final concert lap on the “Cowboy Rides Away” tour with a stop in Columbus the day after Valentine’s Day. Little Big Town is the opening band — they’ll be back this summer at Fraze Pavilion in Kettering in July. Brad Paisley brings his “Beat this Winter” tour to the Nutter Center at the end of February along with Chris Young and Danielle Bradbery.
Feeling warm yet? You can always find the latest information on local concerts and ways you can win tickets and more on our website, k99online.com.
Being a firm believer of proper “concert etiquette,” I found an article at Jezebel.com written by Dodai Stewart called the “Five People You Sit Next to at a Concert.” See if it sounds familiar. 1. Drunk dancing girl. 2. The guy who shouts and finger whistles. 3. The fan who doesn’t know the words but is singing anyway. 4. Mystery person smoking something illegal. 5. The bored/unimpressed person who stands still with crossed arms. That’s a good start. If I may, I’d like to make a few additions. 6. Tall person who stands right in front of you — kind of telling on myself there. Sorry. 7. People sitting in the middle of the row who constantly: get beer/go to bathroom because of beer. Which leads to 8. Over-served fan who keeps spilling beer on you. 9. “Space invader” fans who keep crowding into your area or sneak their friends into your row. And in this day and age, the worst fan for me? 10. The “phone fan” — they spend the entire concert with their arms in the air recording/taking pictures on their cell.
Why bother going to the show? Even some artists themselves have spoken out. Kip Moore told Country Weekly last November, “There’s some times in a show when I’ll go sing right to somebody face to face, and they’ll waste the whole 10 seconds trying to get their phone out of their pocket, and by the time they finally look up, I’m gone. It’s like, ‘Dude, put the phone down and just enjoy what’s going on right now,’ you know?” We know, we know. Sheryl Crow told the magazine the same thing in September. “I think that every artist I’ve talked to would agree with the fact that it is not nearly as much fun to play to people’s cameras instead of to their eyes.”
On a positive note, phones do serve a purpose at concerts. With fewer smokers out there, the waving of your lit phone sure beats the heck out of holding up lighters, and prevents No. 1, No. 4 and No. 8 from setting the place on fire.
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