The Zac Brown Band was
created in 2002 and consists of Zac Brown, lead vocals and guitar, Jimmy De
Martini, fiddle and vocals, John Driskell Hopkins, bass guitar and vocals, Coy
Bowles, guitar and vocals, Chris Fryar, drums, Clay Cook, guitar, keyboards,
mandolin, steel guitar and vocals, and Daniel de los Reyes, percussion. In his
early years of performing he moved on to open a restaurant with his father in
the Lake Oconee region of Georgia, where he got in his practice as a performer.
After a developer bought the restaurant; the band bought a bus and began
touring full-time. After the band was formed, they had an initial lineup of
just 3, and began touring with around 200 dates a year. In 2003, Brown started
a record label, before called Home Grown, but now called Southern Ground for
unnamed legal reasons. It wasn’t until
2008, that the band would reach their current lineup.
In their first year of
receiving national attention the band was nominated for an impressive four
awards. Since 2009 the Zac Brown Band has been nominated for over 50 GRAMMY,
ACM, CMA, CMT awards. Then, in 2011 the band was nominated for nine of the more
prestigious awards including, Top Vocal Group of the Year, Album of the Year, Single Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Vocal Event of the Year.
The band continues to
maintain a series of interesting concert posters. Zac’s constant state of
beanie rocking has a purpose. In an interview he stated that he couldn’t stand
cold air blowing on his ears so whenever he is outside or its cold outside he
will be sporting one of his beanies. Before each concert the band will sit down
with several lucky fans and eat a gourmet feast prepared by the members
themselves as Zac Brown said “I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get
anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with the fans before
each show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.” As if he isn’t busy
enough performing and running his record label, he also maintains a
full-production metal shop, leather artistry shop, and will be opening a camp
for children in 2014.
That's really interesting that they have the unique concert posters and that they actually sit down with the fans to eat before their shows. Did they just start this tradition recently?
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