“Superfest” a great success for LSU
By Garrett Galjour,Jun. 15, 2010 in Reviews • 6 comments
Even with the potential for rain during its tenure, the first annual Bayou Country Superfest certainly did not disappoint. Being held in Tiger Stadium, crowds of over 45,000 came to hear their favorite country music stars. First day acts included: Gloriana, David Nail, Kellie Pickler, Keith Urban, and Taylor Swift. Featured second-day acts included: Justin Moore, Jake Owen. Jason Aldean, Brooks and Dunn, and Kenny Chesney.Kicking off the first day of the festival, Gloriana took the stage. During their 35-minute set, the group moved around the T-shaped runway stage and performed their hits “How Far Do You Wanna Go?” and “Wild At Heart.” Following Gloriana, new artist David Nail performed on stage. During Nail’s performance, rain and wind moved into Tiger Stadium, not fazing Nail a bit. Before belting out his current single “Turning Home”, Nail donned an LSU baseball jersey much to the delight of the crowd. Following Nail’s set, American Idol alum Kellie Pickler took the stage full of energy along with her trademark Southern charm. During her hour long set, Pickler performed such hits as “Best Days of Your Life”, “Red High Heels”, and the emotional ballad “I Wonder”. Following Pickler and starting into the nighttime was the powerhouse known as Keith Urban. During his two-hour set, the Aussie guitar dynamo wowed the crowd and his legion of female fans playing and moving around the runaway stage. While playing his usual array of hits, Urban also performed a decent cover of Steve Miller’s “The Joker”. It is debatable as to whether Urban’s two-hour performance could have possibly gotten the nod for best set of the night considering having to follow all-world superstar Taylor Swift.
Swift took the stage in awe of the 45,000 plus Tiger Stadium crowd. While Swift performed her catalog of chart-topping hits, some concert goers were none too pleased with some of her long-playing video montages.
Day two of the Superfest kicked off with country music rising star Justin Moore. Moore rocked out “Death Valley”, performed his chart-topping singles “Small-Town USA” and “Backwoods”. Moore also performed another interesting tune entitled, “I Can Kick Your Ass”. Following Moore was another upcoming country star, Jake Owen. Starting off his set, Owen performed his country debut single, “Yee Haw”. Performing other such hits, Owen definitely stole the heart of the crowd having a marriage proposal on stage and following it with a rendition of his hit, “Don’t Think I Can’t Love You”.
Following Owen was rockin’ country star Jason Aldean. Aldean rolled his way through such hits as “Hicktown”, “Amarillo Sky”, “Johnny Cash” and “She’s Country”. Country music super duo Brooks and Dunn followed Aldean, performing for over two hours. Superfest is one of the last dates for the ultra-successful duo as they will be calling it quits at the end of the year. They definitely had control of the crowd playing such hits such, “Brand New Man”, “Boot Scootin Boogie”, and “Only In America”. Finally to wrap up the 2010 Bayou Country Superfest, Kenny Chesney took the stage.
During his two-hour set, Chesney performed his catalog of hits. Chesney also took the time to invite Saints’ head coach Sean Payton on stage with Super Bowl trophy in tow as well as LSU football coach Les Miles. All in all, I give the Bayou Country
Superfest a BIG thumbs-up and, hope that it will continue to be held in Baton Rouge at Tiger Stadium.
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Wow, what a quick response! Good job Travis, we’ll have to check the timestamps on the form you filled out, but great work! We’ll announce the winner at 3 o’clock on air, so stay tuned. After 3 the winner will be posted on the front page. Next time I’ll have to make this harder!
Found it too! Too late I guess?
Got any more contests for Voodoo weekend passes? They would make my birthday tomorrow much better!
Hell yeah we have more contests! Stay tuned for the next two weeks, we’ll be doing this again (except a bit more…difficult) and a bunch more contests. We’ve still got some tickets to give away!
Also: Happy Birthday!
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