Despite Requests, Treaty Oak Revival Fans Throw Trash at Ryman Stage

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Treaty Oak Revival was in Nashville this weekend playing a big show at the city’s Bridgestone Arena, and then took a page out of the Billy Strings playbook and booked a more intimate show across the street at the Mother Church of Country Music, the Ryman Auditorium.

The rock band has been strangely slotted into country music—perhaps because they’re from Texas—but The Ryman hosts artists from all genres. It wasn’t Treaty Oak’s rock sound that had some worried when they were booked at the hallowed venue. It’s how the band’s fans are notorious for throwing beers, other drinks, water bottles, full trash barrels, and anything not nailed down at the stage during concerts, especially during their song “Boomtown.”

The band has been criticized in the past for being permissive of this behavior, though after lead singer Sam Canty got hit yet again earlier this year and stormed off stage, his wife piped up, requesting fans sling the liquid contents of their beverage over their heads before dropping the bottles to the ground—still not exactly appropriate concert behavior.

All of this led to their show Sunday (5-17) at the Country Music Mother Church. Looking to not trash what country fans consider a sacred place, signs were posted throughout the concourse requesting fans not throw objects at the stage during the show. Behind the stage on the video screen, a similar request was displayed as fans filed into the show.


But of course, the requests were ignored. At least a portion of the Treaty Oak Revival audience did not respect The Ryman, as can be seen in a video posted by Whiskey Riff.


As some will observe, the scene wasn’t as chaotic as what most Treaty Oak Revival shows experience during “Boomtown.” But it was still a disrespect of The Ryman, of Treaty Oak Revival, and their requests.

The Ryman’s woodwork is quite literally a cultural heirloom and historic, as is the stage itself that had a circle cut out of it at stage center, and transported to the Grand Ole Opry House east of downtown when the Opry moved from The Ryman in the 1970s. It does appear the wood stage itself was covered for the Treaty Oak Revival show.

“We want to thank y’all, most of y’all for coming to see us two nights in a row Tennessee,” frontman Sam Canty said from the stage. “We certainly do appreciate it from the bottom of our f–king hearts. We were just a small band from West Texas just a few years ago. Now here we are playing one of the best venues in all of country music. So thank y’all Nashville.”

Treaty Oak Revival appeared to be truly grateful to play the legendary stage, and did their part to ensure the audience behaved. But more than just a few of their fans refused to comply. Saving Country Music reached out to The Ryman Auditorium to see if they had any statement about the behavior. Those requests were not returned.

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