Boston Country Hub

1.  Location, location, location The pristine blue ocean and sandy beach provided a fantastic location for the beach loving country singers like Jake Owen and Kenny Chensey. 25,000 people singing “Beachin’” while on the beach is tough to beat. 2. Zac Brown Band The band showed once again why they are in elite company at the top of the country music scene. The band was able to put together a set that covered all the hits and included super fun covers like Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”, Metallica’s “Enter Sandman”, and Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”. They finished their set with “Chicken Fried” and set off the most fun, raucous dance party of the weekend. 3. Sam Hunt Playing off the main stage, Hunt had the largest crowd of the weekend aside from Chesney and Zac Brown Band. Hunt played his number 1 singles “Leave the Light On” and “Take Your Time”. He also worked in some classic 90's covers like Reba’s “Fancy” and Deanna Carter’s “Strawberry Wine”. 4.  New...

Florida Georgia Line plays New England Florida Georgia Line came to town along with Frankie Ballard and Thomas Rhett in a jam packed show.  The energetic show was started off with Ballard belting out hits from his debut album, "Sunshine & Whiskey".  Rhett followed with his own hits (but no "When I was Your Man").  Rhett is incredibly fun to watch.  You can tell how much he absolutely eats up being on stage and performing.  He concluded his set by covering "Uptown Funk" and showed off his killer dance moves. Florida Georgia Line was apologetic about having to reschedule due to weather the previous week and despite the show being on a Monday, it seemed like the crowd was willing to party like it was still the weekend.  The jam packed set list included a cover of Black Stone Cherry's "Stay" and their own hits.  Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelly brought their trademark enthusiasm to the show and kept the Verizon Wireless Arena bumping w...

The Sinclair hosted a packed house for Country 102.5's "Chicks with Picks and One Dude" on February 4th to benefit the Floating Hospital for Children at Tuft's Medical Center. The event featured premiere Nashville talent including Easton Corbin, the cook dude, and the chicks, Massachusetts' own Lori McKenna, Kelsea Bellerini, and Maddie  & Tae.  The show was set up as a Nashville style songwriter's night with each artist taking time to explain the reason for writing their hits and then playing them for a a packed house. The highlights for me was definitely hearing Lori McKenna's the story and song behind " Girl Crush " by Little Big Town.  McKenna revealed the hit, written along her songwriting partners, Liz Rose and Hillary Lindsey group, was not a hit for everyone at first but that once they started working on it, it came pretty easily.  Later the same day, Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman came to hear w...