By KATE BELMAN
Thirty-year-old American country singer-songwriter Morgan Wallen is currently on his “One Night at a Time” Tour. This is Wallen’s second tour, his first being “The Dangerous Tour” in 2022. Highly anticipated, as Wallen has grown in popularity since his last tour.
Wallen was born in 1993 in Sneedville, Tennessee, and got his start in 2014 while competing on season six of the popular reality singing competition show “The Voice.” Soon after, he released his first single in collaboration with guitarist Dominic Frost. After the song’s success, he released his first single for his new label Big Loud Records in 2016.
The single “Whiskey Glasses,” which was released as part of the “If I Know Me” in 2018, became the Billboard 2019 top Hot Country Song. Four years later, Wallen’s third album, “One Thing at a Time,” was released. The album dropped in March of this year with a whopping 36 songs, focusing mainly on whiskey and women.
Just a few months later, he was awarded the title of 2023’s ACM or Academy of Country Music Male Artist of the Year. To win this award judges consider an artist’s “success at radio, consumption, success in digital media, live concert ticket sales, and vocal performances,” according to ACM.
Last year, Wallen announced his world tour that would begin in March of 2023 and end in June of 2024. The tour began overseas in New Zealand and Australia before coming to the US in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The tour has a total of 39 stops, including 17 stadiums and 22 amphitheaters and arenas.
Wallen paid a visit to the DMV and performed his two-hour set including 26 songs at FedEx Field in Prince George’s County, Maryland on Saturday, September 2. Many Quince Orchard students attended the concert.
Freshman Maya Garver attended the concert with her mom, brother, uncle, and cousin. Garver said that she’s been a fan of the performer since her mom and brother introduced her “to his music probably about a year ago”. Her first time seeing Wallen in concert, she said there were “some songs he sang that I didn’t know he was going to sing”, but overall enjoyed her experience and said it was a 9/10.
Senior Casey Witchard also attended, being her second time seeing Wallen in concert. She attended the concert with a handful of her friends, saying it was “pretty much what I expected it to be like”, adding that it was a super fun concert and rating it a 9/10.
Junior Sophia Mangiaracina also went with her friends to see Wallen live. She said she was “surprised to see Parker McCollum was opening the concert” but otherwise said it was a 10/10 show. Her first time seeing him live, Mangiaracina also said that she’s been a fan of the artist for about three years.
Sophomore Macey Newell has been a fan of Wallen for about three years and attended the concert with fellow Quince Orchard students Mackie Noble, Molly Rodriguez, Fiona Armentrout, and Sydney Kramer. Newell said she “didn’t expect to see so many other people she knew at the concert”, but had a great time at the show.
October 2023
The Prowler 