ABOUT JAMES BARKER BAND:
James Barker Band have fueled an incredible story over the last eight years, largely on their own, from opening for local bands in dive bars to charting multiple No. 1 singles and hundreds of millions of global streams to headlining festivals and playing stages across North America and Europe. After landing their record-setting, GOLD-certified fourth No. 1 in Canada with "New Old Trucks" feat. 14x Grammy-nominated and multi-PLATINUM selling artist Dierks Bentley the group currently holds the title of the most No. 1's for a Canadian country group in the BDS/Mediabase era. With this, the multi-award-winning four-piece is continuing their meteoric ascent in Nashville.
Made up of James Barker (lead vocals/guitar), Taylor Abram (guitar/background vocals), Connor Stephen (drums), and Bobby Martin (bass), the members of James Barker Band grew up within an hour of each other in rural towns surrounding Toronto. In 2017, these best friends saw their hard work pay off when they sent their single “Chills” straight to the top of Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 chart. From there, James Barker Band released a string of successful singles, including the Gold-certified tracks “Wastin' Whiskey,” “New Old Trucks,” “Over All Over Again,” “There's A Drink For That,” “Just Sayin',” “It's Working,” “Lawn Chair Lazy,” “Good Together,” “Summertime,” as well as Platinum-certified songs “Keep It Simple” and “Chills” and a GOLD-certified EP (Game On). Now, as the unstoppable group continues to trailblaze, many miles from their hometowns, the opportunities are limitless – but the band remains grounded in their small-town roots.
ABOUT DALTON DOVER:Lauded by
MusicRow as a “master country talent,” Dalton Dover's current single “Giving Up On That” via UMG Nashville/Mercury Records was the most-added track at Country Radio upon its debut with 60 first week adds and garnered over 1 million streams in the first two weeks of its release. His latest release “I Wouldn't Be Here” is available everywhere now. Named a Pandora
2023 Artist to Watch, an Amazon Music
2023 Breakthrough Artist to Watch: Country Class and a member of CMT's LISTEN UP 2023 Class, he made his international debut at C2C: Country to Country Festival's CMA Songwriters Series before joining Chase Rice on the
Way Down Yonder Tour. This summer, the Georgia native will perform at the Nissan Stadium Platform and Chevy Vibes stages at CMA Fest, along with opening for Luke Combs at his Gillette Stadium stop in July and supporting dates with Parker McCollum. Dover first started singing at church as a kid, winning his fifth-grade school talent show performing Justin Bieber's “Baby.” In that moment Dover's love of performing was born. By the age of 16 he had picked up a guitar and started teaching himself to play, yet it was his grandfather who turned him on to country music and artists such as Keith Whitley, Rhett Akins, Joe Diffie and Steve Wariner. Performances at local bars soon followed along with sharing covers of some of his favorite songs on TikTok. It was there he caught the ear of producer Matt McV and A&R veteran and founder of Droptine, Jim Catino, who quickly signed Dover. His debut track “You Got a Small Town,” produced by McV, quickly garnered critical acclaim from
Billboard, MusicRow, Country Now and Wide Open Country. With his debut and his follow-up “Baby I Am” earning notable playlisting, Dover was named a Spotify
Hot Country 2022 Artist to Watch along with a spotlight as
Billboard's February Country Rookie of the Month and a nod for
MusicRow's 2022 Discovery Artist of the Year. After opening for Luke Comb's Mercedes-Benz Stadium show in Atlanta, Ga., Dover set out on a seven-date run of his own headlining shows, performing across multiple locations of Blake Shelton's Ole Red, followed by Priscilla Block's
Welcome To The Block Party and his debut at the Grand Ole Opry. For more information, visit
DaltonDoverOfficial.com or follow along on
Instagram,
TikTok,
Twitter and
Facebook.
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