Tucker Wetmore Thrills Fans During Pop-Up Concert on Nashville’s Lower Broadway

It may have been a random Tuesday in Nashville on Oct. 28, but current CMA new artist of the year nominee Tucker Wetmore was welcoming a packed house of fans to “Tuck’s Tasty Tavern” pop-up show experience at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge on Nashville’s Lower Broadway, supported by NÜTRL Vodka
Seltzer.

“We are going to have the best night of our lives,” Wetmore said, leading the packed-to-the-walls crowd through songs including “Wind Up Missin’ You,” “Silverado Blue” and his breakthrough song “Wine Into Whiskey.” 

In between songs, he took swigs of NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer (watermelon is one of Wetmore’s preferred NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer flavors, he noted to Billboard prior to the show). 

“Y’all know how to have a good time,” Wetmore told the crowd, blending music with plenty of light-hearted crowd banter, as the audience sang along fervently to his songs. 

Undoubtedly, one of the evening’s premier moments was when he commandeered the stage while seated at a keyboard. When a fan shouted out a request for Wetmore to play Beethoven, he leading fans through a medley of classical, rockabilly and pop, including Beethoven, followed by the Jerry Lee Lewis classic “Great Balls of Fire” and the Commodores’ “Easy.”

Taking up the mic again, Wetmore tore through his own top 15 Billboard Country Airplay hit “3, 2, 1” before breaking from the main stage to head into the middle of the crowd and then return to his keyboard, for his own “What Would You Do,” and covers of The Georgia Satellites’ “Keep Your Hands to Yourself” and Hank Williams, Jr.’s “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight.” He wrapped the evening with the title inspiration for his upcoming The Brunette World Tour, the fan-favorite song, “Brunette.” 

Joking that his excursion into the crowd came at a bit of a cost, he recalled his days as a high school and college athlete, saying, “I’ve blown out my knee too many times to be doing that s–t, but I’m fired up.”

He ended the show by throwing out limited-edition shirts to fans, then holding up his can of NÜTRL, encouraging the crowd to do the same, and declaring, “Here’s to Broadway on a Tuesday.” 

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