Old Dominion Rocks Southern Maryland W/Photos – The BayNet

SOLOMONS, Md. – The Grammy-nominated band, Previous Dominion, took the out of doors live performance stage on Friday, June tenth, at a packed venue on an attractive Southern Maryland night. They kicked off this summer time’s Waterside Music Sequence at Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland.

SOMD’s favourite native band, The Robbie Boothe Band, began out the night at 5:30pm on the aspect stage (within the Beer Backyard). Robbie introduced that his subsequent single, “Inform Me Your Story” drops on all platforms on June seventeenth. Ryan Griffin took the principle stage at 7pm the place he completed his set along with his hit track, “Salt, Lime, and Tequila”.

The crowds cheered loudly because the five-member band, Previous Dominion, got here out on the stage shortly earlier than 8:30pm, singing one in all their eight primary nation hits, “Make It Candy”. 

On the finish of the primary track, Matt Ramsey (lead singer/guitar) stated to the excited crowd, “What an ideal day already. And now, we get to play music for some time for you guys. I can’t consider a greater factor to do on a extra stunning evening.”

Previous Dominion is the ACM Group of the Yr-with March 2022 marking their fifth profession win within the class. They surpassed one billion on-demand streams, earned a number of Platinum and Gold single certifications and have headlined arenas and amphitheaters across the globe. 

4 members of the band have ties to Virginia, the Previous Dominion State. Matthew Ramsey and Whit Sellers (drums) have been on rival marching band drum traces in highschool in Virginia. Matt went on to play the guitar and Sellers caught with the drums and went on to review music at James Madison College, the place he met Geoff Sprung, the bass player-also from Virginia. Brad Tursi (guitar), a Connecticut native, was by no means a rustic music fan, though he would make enjoyable of his dad for loving the style. He met bandmates Sellers and Sprung whereas additionally a pupil at James Madison College.

Trevor Rosen (guitar, keyboards) met lead singer Matt Ramsey in Nashville in 2003, and was launched to the three different members of the band. Matt (together with band members Trevor and Brad) informed the gang on Friday evening, “We simply saved writing hits for different bands”. After taking part in their very own hit songs for over an hour, the band  carried out a couple of verses from among the well-liked songs they’d written for different artists. Matt went on to say, “After Trevor and Brad every wrote a primary hit, I figured it was time for me to jot down one too.” 

After writing hit songs for artists like Kenny Chesney, Dierks Bentley, Keith City, Sam Hunt and The Band Perry, the band received a file deal of their very own. In the summertime of 2015, the band’s track, “Break Up With Him” went on to primary, and Previous Dominion lastly began getting the popularity they’d spent over a decade on the lookout for.

The five-member band rocked the gorgeous venue at The Calvert Marine Museum (parking zone turned live performance venue) for nearly two hours on Friday evening with the crowds standing, singing, or dancing all through the entire live performance. They completed out the evening with the crowd-pleasing track, “I Was on a Boat That Day,” the primary single from their fourth album, Time, Tequila & Remedy-released in October 2021.

Previous Dominion will spend a lot of the remainder of the summer time on tour with Kenny Chesney-playing primarily at giant, sold-out stadiums. 

The band has a busy weekend schedule. On Saturday evening (June eleventh), they’re one in all three opening acts for Kenny Chesney at Heinz Subject in Pittsburgh, together with Carly Pearce and Dan & Shay. On Sunday evening, they’ll be performing on the CMA Fest again residence in Nashville. 

The BayNet want to provide a really particular, “Thank You!” to the superb workers and quite a few volunteers of The Calvert Marine Museum for internet hosting one other unimaginable occasion in Southern Maryland. After two years with no summer time live shows, it feels so good to have reside music as soon as once more at The Calvert Marine Museum.

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