Temecula Road to open for Sara Evans in Greensburg
The three members of the band Temecula Road have been putting in the work for over three years to make their band a household name.
Now the band opens for country star Sara Evans on her Christmas tour this season, which includes a stop tonight in Greensburg.
Dawson Anderson and sisters Emma and Maddie Salute hail from the town of Temecula, Calif., and met through their vocal coach.
鈥淢addie and I have been singing since we can remember really, and started taking vocal lessons since I was about 9 years old,鈥� said Emma Salute. 鈥淔our years later Dawson started taking vocal lessons from the same vocal coach and the vocal coach actually introduced us on his third lesson.鈥�
That introduction set a course for the trio who began to sing together around town, which then led into writing songs together.
鈥淎fter about a year of that we really decided to take it seriously and make a name, so we came up with Temecula Road because we wanted it to have roots,鈥� Emma Salute said.
Anderson said there is a big market for country music in California but their love for country actually grew from their parents interest in the genre.
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In the last three years, they鈥檝e played the Stagecoach Festival in California each year, have done a tour with Scotty McCreery in Europe and they made their Opry debut this year.
The band has been with Hollywood Records for about five years, and currently they have three original songs that they鈥檝e released as well as a cover of 鈥淐hristmas in Dixie.鈥� They also have plans to release new music early next year as well.
The group has opened up for Evans a few times in the past and they got the news about two months ago that they would be the opening act on her Christmas tour.
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Maddie Salute said it蘑菇视频 super fun to be on tour during the Christmas season because 鈥渋t蘑菇视频 the happiest time of the year, but I will say that our Christmas shopping is absolutely terrible鈥�
Anderson said snowy conditions are sure to be part of the mix as well as they鈥檙e touring in the north.
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But this is the first time in several years that they haven鈥檛 been home relaxing at least a few weeks before Christmas.
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On the tour the group has really enjoyed hanging out with their crew as well as Evans鈥� crew.
鈥淲e mesh really well, and we know them really, really well and they treat us like family so it makes it easier to be out on the road when you have good people around you,鈥� Anderson said. 鈥淚t makes it feel like home out there too.鈥�
He added that touring with Evans has really been a part of his career coming full circle so far.
鈥淢y mom was a huge Sara Evans fan and she went to a concert when I was three years old to watch Sara open for Brad Paisley and during that show Brad said 鈥榩arents I don鈥檛 care what you have to do, but get a guitar in your kid蘑菇视频 hands, get your kid into music because it will change their lives,鈥� and she was inspired by that,鈥� Anderson said.
鈥淪he came back and got me a toy guitar and a couple years after that got me into lessons, and if it weren鈥檛 for playing the guitar, I wouldn鈥檛 have gotten into singing and I wouldn鈥檛 have met these awesome girls (the Salute sisters), so it really has been a crazy full-circle moment not just for me but for them, too,鈥� he said. 鈥淪o touring with Sara has really been a dream come true.鈥�
This is the first time that the group has ever performed in Pennsylvania.