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USA Today
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Ed Sheeran, Noah Kahan play intimate concert at a Nashville dive bar
Ed Sheeran, Noah Kahan play intimate concert at a Nashville dive bar Show Caption Hide Caption Ed Sheeran, Noah Kahan perform impromptu set at Nashville's Santa's Pub Nashville-favored global folk-pop stars Ed Sheeran, Noah Kahan performed an impromptu private set at Nashville's Santa's Pub on April 22, 2025. Folk-pop superstars Noah Kahan and Ed Sheeran played a show for an unusually small crowd on April 22. In a surprise team-up, the pair performed for about 100 people at a dive bar. Sheeran, who has sold about 200 million singles in the past dozen years, joined Kahan, his friend of the past seven years, for a set that included hits like "Dial Drunk" and "Stick Season." "We're going to play songs until someone gives up," said Sheeran as the impromptu, but invite-only event began at Santa's Pub in Nashville, Tennessee. "It's going to feel like a freestyle battle for depressed people," Kahan joked. "I'm the Jewish Ed Sheeran." "I'm the Catholic Noah Kahan," Sheeran quipped. Ed Sheeran is the hit of Coachella for sheer talent Inside Noah Kahan, Ed Sheeran's intimate Santa's Pub performance Santa's Pub is the kind of cash-only, single-serve cans or bottles, no-liquor-available type of dive bar, that's rare in areas near downtown Nashville of late. It's where $100 can buy a drink for everyone living on a nearby neighborhood block. By tradition's standards, this wasn't exactly country music. It was "Cheers," but the whole world — and not just bar patrons — knew the names of two people occasionally stomping their feet on the floor for rhythmic emphasis, but primarily, rather quietly, playing some of the saddest, most healing songs of the past decade on their guitars. Masters golf ad prompts outrage over Noah Kahan's 'Georgia on My Mind' cover: Here's why Ed Sheeran's joyous, bar and festival-hopping world tour Sheeran is preparing to drop a new album entitled "Play," which he largely recorded with a dozen musicians in Goa, on India's southwestern coast. No release date has been revealed. As part of the promotion, he's bar-hopped across the country for small shows in cities including Boston, Los Angeles, and New York as well as a headlining set at Coachella. Stops have seen him appear with everyone from Megan Moroney and songwriter Amy Allen in Nashville, to Post Malone, Shaboozey and pop star Alex Warren at Coachella. Not content with that, he's also performed for pink-hatted bachelorettes at Tootsie's in Nashville's Lower Broadway neighborhood. In this cycle of his career, sitting across from Kahan and providing a bittersweet paradise by the dive bar neon lights is par for the course. "Even outside of playing at the Ryman or somewhere, these crowds make four-part harmonies (feel almost) automatic when you perform in Nashville," Sheeran whispered to Kahan after playing the first verse and chorus of his breakout hit "The A Team." "Yeah, man, Belmont students are all like, 'My moment is right now,'" joked Kahan in response. Kahan and Sheeran, the perfect pair Kahan is a superfan of Sheeran as much as he is a friend. As he performed several songs, which he described as chronicling a troubled relationship with his father, the clearness of a star able to tap into and concisely express his soul's rawest potency became clear. Sheeran also has that quality in spades. As Sheeran performed the decade-old "I'm A Mess," Kahan gazed on, stunned that he wrote the song while standing in a spare shower in his home with superb acoustics. "You're... lathering yourself to that — I can't take a shower anymore," he joked. When Kahan sang a new song, "Porchlight," which again dips into fraught family dynamics, Sheeran smiled, occasionally strumming along as a backing player. Over the past dozen years, notably during a nine-month stint in 2013 when he lived in Nashville, Sheeran has drunk many a night away at Santa's Pub. Thus, more than any festival or stadium stage, it's where he felt it appropriate to create an evening that was equal parts a night at a Scottish pub and a melding of two super-star talents. Sheeran and Kahan kicked back bottles of Modelo and played A-sides, B-sides and new material, clearly enjoying themselves, the crowd and each others company most of all.
USA Today
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
What musician is the newest investor in Tiger Woods' TGL golf league?
What musician is the newest investor in Tiger Woods' TGL golf league? Show Caption Hide Caption Video inside Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy's TGL golf league SoFi Center Inside the SoFi Center with three of the 24 PGA Tour pros who will make up the six teams and be televised on ESPN on January 7, 2025. Vermont singer-songwriter Noah Kahan is now an investor in the Boston Common Golf team. Boston Common Golf is one of six teams in the new TGL golf league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. Kahan is best known for his folk-pop album "Stick Season" and collaborations with artists like Post Malone and Gracie Abrams. The TGL season is currently underway, with matches airing on ESPN and ESPN+. Noah Kahan is expanding his reach outside of music and into the world of golf. Last week, the singer from Vermont was announced as an investor in Boston Common Golf, which is one of six inaugural teams in TGL, the new golf league founded in part by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. 'Joining Boston Common Golf is so surreal, just a dream come true to be a part of a team that represents New England, the only place in the world where anything makes sense to me,' Kahan said in a statement. The team is owned by Fenway Sports Group, which also owns the Boston Red Sox. Singer Niall Horan also has an ownership stake in the team. What is TGL? Golf league founded by Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy TGL is a new golf league that was founded by golfers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as well as sports executive Mike McCarley. The league holds competitions indoors at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach, Florida, using golf simulation technology. For the league's inaugural season, which began earlier this month, it consists of six teams representing six different cities, including Boston. The team's players include top players from the PGA Tour. Matches are held weekly and air on ESPN and ESPN+. According to the league's website, matches are live and all the players wear microphones, "bringing unprecedented access to the competition for golf fans." What is Boston Common Golf? Team schedule, roster, season Boston Common Golf is one of the six inaugural teams this season in TGL. The team is owned by Fenway Sports Group, which also owns the Red Sox. Its players this season include: Rory McIlroy Hideki Matsuyama Keegan Bradley Adam Scott TGL's season is currently underway, with matches being held every week. Boston Common Golf's schedule is available online. Singer-songwriter Kahan is best known his folk-pop album 'Stick Season,' an ode to growing up in New England infused with self-deprecating, introspective lyrics about struggles with mental health, love and homesickness. 'If I get too close/And I'm not how you hoped/Forgive my northern attitude/Oh, I was raised out in the cold,' he sings on the opening track 'Northern Attitude.'You may know him for his various collaborations; he's collecting them like infinity stones, some fans say. There's 'Dial Drunk' with Post Malone, 'Northern Attitude' highlighting Hozier's folksy wails, 'Call Your Mom' with Lizzy McAlpine, 'She Calls Me Back' with Kacey Musgraves, 'Everywhere, Everything' with fellow Grammy nominee Gracie Abrams and, most recently, 'Homesick' featuring Sam is laying the final groundwork of the 'Stick Season' universe Feb. 9 with a new song ('Forever') and two new collaborations on tracks from the deluxe album, 'You're Gonna Go Far' and 'Paul Revere.' How did Noah Kahan get famous? Kahan spent his high school years performing at open mics and uploading his music to YouTube and SoundCloud. This is how manager Drew Simmons found him, according to Spin Magazine. Republic Records offered him a contract the same day he auditioned for released his debut album 'Busyhead' in 2019, followed by "I Was / I Am" in 2021. His latest album, "Stick Season," peaked at No. 3 on Billboard's album chart and is RIAA certified Gold. What genre is Noah Kahan? 'Busyhead' and Kahan's second album 'I Was / I Am' in 2021 veer more into pop territory than the 'stomp clap hey' sound of 'Stick Season.' 'I was writing music that I wouldn't listen to,' he told Boston Magazine. 'My escape was writing little folk songs for myself.' Still, they maintain focus on a subject that's core to Kahan's songwriting – mental health. 'The happiest person out here today should be in therapy,' he told a crowd of 40,000 at Boston Calling in 2023, where he drew the largest crowd in the festival's 10-year history, according to Boston Magazine. His charity 'The Busyhead Project,' raises money and awareness for mental health care. His 2020 EP 'Cape Elizabeth,' which he wrote in a week back home in Vermont, foreshadows his later releases with folksy guitar riffs on 'A Troubled Mind' and up-north imagery in 'Maine.' When a TikTok he posted of what would later become 'Stick Season' blew up, Kahan realized there was a real hunger for that kind of folk-infused pop that he's become a household name for.
