Headed to the pool on a day off at his home in southern Alabama, Thompson Square vocalist Keifer Thompson reminisced about concerts he attended during his college years.
“When I was in college, we went (to concerts) to do one thing and one thing only; that was to party hard,” he said.
He and wife Shawna Thompson will host a college concert of their own Sunday at Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. If all goes well, Keifer Thompson said, it will make for a party worth remembering.
“It’s not going to be a boring married couple up there,” he said.
Since bursting onto the country music scene in 2010 with the release of their debut single “Let’s Fight,” Thompson Square has hardly basked in its own success. The duo has toured incessantly, playing as many as 250 shows each year — sometimes with the likes of country superstars Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum and Luke Bryan.
Andrew Holzaepfel, Ohio University senior associate director of student activities, said Thompson Square’s national prominence and billboard success made it an attractive act.
“We selected Thompson Square because they have been very successful on the charts recently and have established themselves as major performers in the country genre,” he said in an email.
Holzaepfel was unable to provide the amount Thompson Square was paid for its appearance or the number of tickets sold for the performance by press time.
Kristen Brenneman, a sophomore studying middle childhood education, said she is hoping to score a ticket for the show.
Brenneman said she finds Thompson Square’s songs to be equally thoughtful and relatable.
“They have a good mix between a good beat and down-home country music,” she said. “They think about their lyrics.”
Concertgoers will first be greeted by opening act Chris Cavanaugh, a country singer who opened for Lee Brice and Jerrod Niemann at OU in 2012, before they brace themselves for Thompson Square’s blend of up-tempo country jams, soothing ballads and covers.
“That’s the cool thing about being a married couple that rocks out,” Keifer Thompson said. “You can do a little bit of everything.”
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