Dustin Lynch’s Celebration Mode Tour is Dwelling As much as Its Identify: Backstage Bourbon + Extra

In case you identify your tour “Celebration Mode,” you’d higher be able to ship. Happily, Dustin Lynch is a professional, and he is doing precisely that on the highway in 2022.

Throughout his decade-long profession up to now, the singer has put out 5 albums, charted eight No. 1 singles on the Billboard Nation Airplay chart, performed numerous festivals and toured with a number of the greatest names within the style. He is even mounted his personal Las Vegas pool occasion, the Pool Scenario.

Now, halfway by his 2022 Celebration Mode Tour, Lynch says he is conserving the nice instances rolling — each onstage and off.

“Oh, it is a lot enjoyable,” he tells Style of Nation. “We kicked off the present and had loads of huge moments that we had been hoping would join in sure methods, kinda take the gang for a trip, and after making an attempt it out on them the primary few instances, we realized that each one of our preparation is paying off. I’ve by no means had a lot enjoyable onstage.”

Lynch can also be one thing of a bourbon hobbyist — “I feel I drink extra bourbon than I play golf, if which means something,” he jokes — and he is bringing slightly style of his hometown to each metropolis he visits on the Celebration Mode Tour, as a longtime companion of George Dickel Tennessee Whisky.

Each the singer and George Dickel hail from Tullahoma, Tenn.

“Not solely the identical hometown, however actually, the identical holler,” Lynch factors out.

Most not too long ago, he is been favoring Dickel Bourbon, which got here out in June of 2021.

“That is what we have been ingesting on the highway, and has been a fan-favorite at my man cave at my home,” he shares.

As for the significance of conserving a bar backstage whereas he is on tour?

“It is form of baked into what we do. With touring round, loads of what we do is entertain and host these within the business,” Lynch says, joking that it is simpler than lugging a golf course round. “We have just about made mates/household in each metropolis we cease at, so there’s at all times a giant group of individuals backstage. We like to offer a spot for them to have enjoyable and revel in, and it offers us a platform to convey them some new drinks that they perhaps have not heard of, to see what they assume.”

Onstage, Lynch can also be bringing one thing new to his tour stops.

“I’ve by no means seen my crowds have a lot [fun], simply having fun with the out-of-nowhere, off-the-wall stuff that we’re pulling,” he particulars. “It is a present I have never seen anybody do, and I have been round nation music for some time, and seen loads of concert events. This can be a very distinctive present that I am actually proud that we got here up with.”

For one, factor, it is interactive: Lynch’s set incorporates a “splash zone” the place some followers get to share the highlight.

“It isn’t simply folks watching us the entire time. We’re very inclusive, and a few of our followers get to be a part of the band,” he says. “I do not wanna give an excessive amount of away, however we have by no means executed something prefer it.”

The Celebration Mode Tour runs by mid-Might, concluding with a cease in Avila Seaside, Calif.