Brandon Michael set to play Freedom Fiesta this Saturday
(Seguin) — Brandon Michael will hit the stage at this year’s Freedom Fiesta at Central Park in Seguin on Saturday.
Michael is no stranger to Seguin. Michael is a Seguin native, and he says he’s excited to play on the square in his hometown.
“Really excited, actually. I grew up in Seguin. I graduated (from Seguin High School.) So, Seguin’s my hometown. It’ll be fun to finally play right down from where everything started, where I first picked up the guitar. It will be good to finally play for everybody that was there in the beginning,” said Michael.
When he does hit the stage, Michael says he makes a concerted effort to engage his audience young and old.
“Whenever I’m on stage, I try to connect to everybody. It doesn’t matter if they’re little babies or 80 years old. I try to make sure that everyone feels connected to the music or at least engaged with me because I’ve got little babies.
If there’s little kids, sometimes I’ll play “Baby Shark” at my show, you never know. But I’ll always try and make sure that everyone’s engaged and that I talk to everybody. And whenever I take a break or the show’s over, I always try to walk around and shake hands and make sure everybody’s enjoying the show because if it weren’t for the fans and everybody out in the crowd, I wouldn’t have a job,” said Michael.
Michael cites many artists he admires. He says he has come a long way since he first performed a song from one of his favorite singers on stage.
“So, the first song that I ever sang in front of anybody ever was in Kingsbury at a firefighters benefit with a guy named Clint Taft and the Buck Wild Band. I’m sure you all know who Clint Taft is, And the first song I ever sang was “Neon” by Chris Young. And I was like 16 at the time, and that was my first time ever singing in front of people. I was so nervous at the time. You could’ve blinked at me, and I would’ve fallen over. That was long before my official career started, but yeah Chris Young, George Strait, Sawyer Brown, Keith Whitley, Conway Twitty, that’s the stuff that I grew up listening to, Clay Walker. That’s what I remember as a kid,” said Michael.
Festivities get underway at 6 p.m. Saturday in Central Park located in downtown Seguin. Michael is set to take the stage at 8 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.