BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.14.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Koe Wetzel & Treaty Oak Revival X-WR-CALDESC:City of Alexandria\, Louisiana X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20240327T120000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20240327T120000 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Koe Wetzel & Treaty Oak Revival DESCRIPTION:Koe Wetzel is taking the Damn Near Normal Tour to Rapides Pa rish Coliseum  with Treaty Oak Revival on September 25. Tickets go on s ale this Friday at 10 am. Don’t miss a wild night to remember. Get tic kets at TIcketmaster.com or at the Coliseum Box Office (Mon - Fri\, 9 am - 4 pm).\n\n\nSurrounded by flames\, amps cranked all the way up\, and no f*cks given\, Koe Wetzel leaves a trail of sold-out venues\, screamin g fans\, and empty booze bottles in his wake wherever he goes. Proudly h ailing from Northeast Texas\, he has quietly asserted himself as the ult imate country rockstar\, bulldozing the boundaries between Nashville son gcraft\, rowdy Texas spirit\, and rainswept Seattle hard rock. After mov ing 1 million units under the radar and popping off as one of the hottes t live performers in the game\, he welcomes everyone to the party on his 2022 full-length offering\, Hell Paso [Columbia Record].\n\n“I did wh at I wanted to do\,” he exclaims. “This was straight up me. Nobody t old me to do this record. We pulled in every genre we were feeling at th e time. We spent the last ten years trying to make this sound—Hell Pas o is it.”\n\nNever compromising\, Koe might just be the last real rebe l out there. The Gold-selling singer\, songwriter\, guitarist\, and prod ucer shakes up the status quo\, shatters expectations\, and sticks to hi s guns with a sound steeped in country storytelling\, yet spiked with gr unge grit. He’s unapologetic\, undeniable\, and unlike anyone else you ’ve ever heard. Without anything to prove and nothing to lose\, he con tinues to kick ass on his own terms. Breaking through with a series of i ndependent releases and tallying over 1.3billion streams to date\, he ha s impressively notched three RIAA Gold-certified singles\, including “ February 28\, 2016\,” “Something To Talk About\,” and “Drunk Dri ving.” The latter adorned his 2020Columbia Records debut\, Sellout\, w hich arrived to widespread critical acclaim from American Songwriter\, B illboard\, The Boot\, Rolling Stone\, and more. At the same time\, he ha s quietly emerged as a powerhouse performer. He graced Pollstar’s “T op Worldwide Tours” back-to-back in 2020 and 2021\,moving hundreds of thousands of tickets in the process. In addition to headlining his own K oe Wetzel’s Incredible Music Festival\, he has packed arenas\, amphith eaters\, and ballparks across North America\, attracting a devout audien ce.\n\nAt the top of 2022\, Koe and longtime collaborator Taylor Kimball retreated to Sonic Ranch recording studio—a stone’s throw from the Mexican border just outside of El Paso\, TX. Holed up on a pecan farm fo r a month\, they had nothing to do “except eat wonderful Mexican food and fucking play music.”\n\n\n\n\n“It was straight-up bliss\, man\, he says. “I couldn’t go to the bar because there isn’t one. I j ust had to make music!”\n\nFittingly\, he set the stage for Hell Paso with “April Showers.” Powered by a galloping riff awash in distortio n\, it culminates on one of his most chantable choruses. “It gives you a taste of the entire record\,” he adds. “It was a good song for ev eryone to jump into.” On its heels\, the single “Creeps” crawls on grimy guitar towards a sing-song refrain tailormade for stadium-size cr owds—or karaoke at your favorite old watering hole. “It was a feel-g ood song for me\,” he says. “I’m big into the Zombie apocalypse li ke The Walking Dead\, so I wanted an apocalyptic zombie video for this b *tch.”\n\nPunctuated by nocturnal Spanish guitar and Spaghetti Western -style whistling\, “Cabo” recounts a weekend of endless debauchery i n Mexico with no shortage of gory details. “It’s a million percent t rue\,” he grins. “I’ve pissed off a lot of girlfriends and wives\, but other than that it’s wonderful.”\n\nHank Ealy from Turnpike Tro ubadours lays down tear-drenched pedal steel on “So Low” where Koe c onfesses\, “I’m so low it’s f*cking awesome. Makes me glad there a in’t a cure for insane.”\n\n“It was like nothing we’ve ever done before\, so I was like\,‘Hell with it\, put it on here’\,” he say s.\n\n“YellaBush Road” brings him back home with vulnerable verses a nd another vital hook\, “And I’m way too blessed to b*tch today.”\ n\n“‘YellaBush Road’ is my community\,” he goes on. “It used t o be a lot bigger. They had a school\, a church\, and everything out the re. Now\, there’s not even a road sign for it. This is my hometown son g though. You get on the road\, you get away from everything you know\, and you start to miss it. So\, the tune puts me back there.”\n\nThen\, there’s “Better Without You.” Guitar wails in between a punchy be at as he promises\, “I’m doing better without you being around.” I bought a house a year ago\, and I’ve probably slept in my bed for maybe like two months out of the last year\,” he notes. “I had to un pack everything in my garage. One of those boxes had all of my ex-girlfr iend’s shit in it. It was raining outside. I was in one of those moods where I was like\, ‘F*ck this\, I’m going to sit on the couch and g rab a guitar.’ You’re over it\, but you’re not really over it.”\ n\nThe ride reaches its emotional highpoint on “Sad Song.” He conclu des the record with a fiery final word. “I just got in the booth and s ang\,” he recalls. “It was all in the moment.”\n\nIn the end\, the re’s nobody like Koe\, and we should be really f*cking grateful.\n\n We brought everything together into one on Hell Paso\,” he leaves off . “You’ve got to be yourself. Once I put out something authentic\, i t worked. This record is going to get a lot of flack\, but it’s going to get a lot of love too. I’m not going to stop. Hopefully\, I go home at some point\, kiss grandma\, and she’ll maybe cook me breakfast. URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.cityofalexandriala.com/events/koe-wetzel-treat y-oak-revival/ UID:urn:uuid:0123ed31-4bb3-4cda-bf1f-51206c6278a5 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20261004T140741Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240926T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240926T000000 LOCATION:Rapides Parish Coliseum\n5600 Coliseum Blvd\nAlexandria LA\, 71 303 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR