Australian country star Keith Urban offers energetic, virtuostic performance at Fort Calgary to end Country Thunder 2023.
Country music star Keith Urban performs on day three of the 2023 Country Thunder Music Festival at Fort Calgary Sunday, August 20, 2023.Urban’s impressive fretwork was already centre-stage by the second song Sunday night. After an acapella intro leading to the anthemic Wild Hearts, Urban and his band launched into an energetic take on Put You in the Song, which quickly became a showcase for Urban’s fiery guitar work and interplay with his band in an extended jam.
While there may have been a lack of female country stars on the Country Thunder stage this year — only four of the 17 main stage acts were women — Urban paid homage and sang along to footage to some of his more high-profile duet partners such as Carrie Underwood during a soaring take on The Fighter and Pink on One Too Many, He even gave a nod to Taylor Swift with a brief sampling of Anti-Hero as a lead-in to his 20-year-old hit Somebody Like You.
Next Girl, Easy Going and What He Didn’t Do. Pearce’s perceptive backup band were all dressed alike, which gave the proceedings a certain old-school Grand Ole Opry feel. While Pearce is essentially a contemporary country artist, her band’s occasional acoustic-guitar and fiddle interplay did offer some near bluegrass vibes.Article content
Country music artist Nate Smith performs on day three of the 2023 Country Thunder Music Festival at Fort Calgary Sunday, August 20, 2023.Zimmerman was certainly more of a spectacle. Flanked by a head-banging, frizzy-haired guitarist-bassist duo, the singer came bouncing on stage with a frantic energy. But there a definite disconnect between the wild abandon of his stage presence and the plodding mid-tempo tunes he offered.
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