Hunter Hayes

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Hunter Hayes Lights Up CT's Ridgefield Playhouse

My country-music-loving heart definitely was beating a little faster this past Sunday. Hunter Hayes, who has been on the country music scene for a while now, played his very first – and hopefully not his last show in Switzerland.

Near the end of his main set at Musikfest Cafe in Bethlehem on Thursday, country singer Hunter Hayes teased the audience.

Auburn Hills on November 22, 2014

Saturday at the Sprint Center, he revealed a more muscular sound and a substantially bulked up physique for an audience of more than 4,000.

For the better part of the past decade, country music aimed at young listeners has been (despite big sales) neither good, nor really country, and even worse when performed live.