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Treaty Oak Revival's Sam Canty onstage at Stagecoach 2025. The Texas country-rock band have implored their audiences to stop throwing things at their shows after a fan was injured. Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Stagecoach Fans of Treaty Oak Revival aren’t known for being demure. Whenever the Texas country-rock band plays their song “Boomtown” live in concert, audience members shower the band and one another with beer. But the ritual has increasingly gotten out of hand, culminating with someone hurling a chair into the crowd during the group’s performance last week in Charlotte, North Carolina, and reportedly sending one fan to the hospital.
Singer Sam Canty and the group apparently had enough. In a video message posted on Thursday, Treaty Oak Revival implored their fans to refrain from throwing objects.
“We’ve seen the videos and we’re not happy with what we’re seeing,” Canty said. “We will say it from us directly: Please stop throwing shit into the crowd or at the stage during ‘Boomtown.’ We’re all for beer showers, we’re all for crowd surfing, we’re all for raging and having a good time, but please do not throw hard objects into the fucking crowd. It’s hurting people and we don’t fucking condone it.”
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At least three incidents of thrown chairs have been reported at recent Treaty Oak Revival concerts. There’s also been video circulating of a tossed trash can. Last September, Canty himself was struck in the face by a beer can during a performance.
“Please take care of each other. We’re a family. Let’s have fucking fun,” Canty said in the group’s social media post. “Don’t throw shit.”
Fans throwing objects, especially beer, has become a hot-button issue, and increasingly common, at some country music concerts over the last two years. In April 2025, Braxton Keith stopped a show to admonish fans for tossing beer and elaborated on the issue during an appearance on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast. “It’s unacceptable,” Keith said. “You name one place you can throw anything at somebody and it’s ok.”
