Sixwire performs the Nationwide Anthem on the Large Machine Music Metropolis Grand Prix in August 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Anybody who’s tuned into the RNC to date will probably acknowledge Sixwire, the five-member home band that is introduced an enthusiastic sequence of traditional rock covers to the conference flooring — together with a shock prolonged efficiency after an abrupt teleprompter malfunction on Evening 1.
The group has entertained viewers with renditions of such hits as “Life is a Freeway,” “All Star,” “What I Like About You,” “Do not Cease Believin'” and “Reelin’ In The Years,” amongst different “dad jams.”
And whereas it is solely recorded one album (for Warner Brothers, again in 2002), it is not only a random nation cowl band. This is what to learn about Sixwire:
- The Nashville-based band’s members embrace lead singer and guitarist Andy Childs, keyboardist and singer Steve Hornbeak, bass guitarist John Howard, guitarist and singer Steve Mandile and drummer Chuck Tilley.
- The band will get its title from a slang time period for guitar, which its administration company calls “a becoming title to a band fronted by 3 guitarists.”
- Sixwire has served as the home band on a number of actuality TV exhibits, together with the USA Community’s Nashville Star, Fox’s Subsequent Nice American Band and CMT’s Subsequent Famous person. Additionally they performed because the backing band for Connie Britton’s character on the ABC Drama Nashville.
- The band has carried out at different high-profile occasions, together with Tremendous Bowls 51, 54 and 56, the Daytona 500 and the NHL All-Star Sport. Their administration says they had been additionally ESPN’s “first ever ‘home band'” for the 2019 NFL Draft, which came about in Nashville.
- Over time, its particular person members have performed within the bands for such stars as Religion Hill, Dolly Parton and Lee Greenwood, who took to the conference flooring on Monday to carry out his personal hit “God Bless the usA.” as Trump made his first RNC look.
Sixwire is the principle occasion so far as stay music goes, however it’s not the one artist bringing tunes to the conference corridor.
Nation singer Chris Janson, who carried out on the 2016 RNC, appeared onstage on the primary evening to sing a few of his songs together with “Purchase Me a Boat.” And, in fact, there was the pre-produced music video for the parody rap tune “Trump Trump Child” on Tuesday evening.
The RNC additionally created a Spotify playlist again in April, which it referred to as “a weekly installment of rigorously curated music to get you pumped for the GOP Conference.”
“Our first #GOPlaylist will carry you again to a time when the border was safe, gasoline was low-cost, and life was good,” it mentioned on X, previously Twitter, on the time.
The playlist now not seems on Spotify. However as Rolling Stone reported, it closely featured artists who’ve publicly criticized Trump through the years, together with The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, Drake and Daddy Yankee.
The administration and estates of plenty of musical artists, from Queen to Bruce Springsteen to Aerosmith to the Village Folks, have denied Trump the rights to make use of their songs at his marketing campaign occasions. (Some, just like the Rolling Stones and Tom Petty, have even threatened authorized motion.)
That did not cease the RNC from airing a montage of Trump dancing to the Village Folks’s “Y.M.C.A” earlier this week, although.
This reporting initially appeared as a part of the NPR Community’s stay protection of the RNC.
