Since that chat, Paisley has offered a pair of tickets to Saturday’s show to Luis Pantoja and Mayra Ramirez, the 5 millionth couple to file for a marriage license in Clark County, on Feb. That is how I learned to play for an audience.” “I’d get like $100 to sing five songs at a Lions Club luncheon.
“The biggest part of my experience as a kid was playing acoustically,” Paisley said. Paisley has opted for a storytelling-acoustic format, a concept that also hearkens to his youth. The country superstar is in a more ornate shelter this Friday and Saturday night at Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas.
The days of competing with lemonade and potato salad are long past for Paisley. “We’re lugging in guitar amps and a little drum kit and setting up in the corner of a picnic shelter.” “The earliest band gigs were, I’m a 12-year-old playing the church picnic, you know, on a Sunday afternoon,” Paisley said in a recent phone chat. But that’s not entirely true for Brad Paisley. They say performing in front of an audience is no picnic. Brad Paisley performs during his Weekend Worrior World Tour at the Allstate Arena on Saturday, Feb 24, 2018, in Rosemont, IL.
