Country artist Dylan Marlowe brought the house down, then was kicked off the festival grounds in a viral moment.
Marlowe decided to address a video he posted to social media showing his being escorted out of Country Jam on Saturday in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, shortly after performing his own set at the festival,
Parade
reports. Security guards gripped his shirt as they led him through the crowd while Jake Owen, who was performing at the time, could be heard saying through the microphone, “that’s Dylan Marlowe.”
Marlowe captioned the original video, “getting kicked out of a concert I just played. Got kicked out of our concert trying to watch Jake Owen. Good job, dude. I’m a huge threat.”
Though Marlowe later deleted the clip, screen recordings are still available on
TikTok
.
On Sunday, the “Boys Back Home” singer decided to set the record straight in a four-minute
TikTok
. He told followers he deleted the original post after “sleeping on it and watching church,” deciding “it wasn’t fair for that festival to have this video blowing up about their festival when it was really just one bad apple in the whole thing.”
According to Marlowe’s account, he and a friend named Dave had been watching Owen’s set from a front-of-house tower for about 10 minutes when security approached them, despite their having both “All Access” and “Artist Credentials” passes.
Marlow explained, “we were like, ‘Hey. We have All Access wristbands given to our tour manager for us to wear to be anywhere we want to be.’” According to him, the security guard responded, “No. I don’t care. So and so said you can’t be up here.”
When they moved to a different location, the same security guard confronted them again, eventually involving police officers who told Marlowe, “this security is our boss and he’s telling us to get y’all out of here.”
Marlowe admitted the exchange became heated.
“I’m not going to paint it like I was this perfectly great dude who wasn’t rude back to him after he was rude to me,” he said. “There were definitely a few heated words exchanged with that guy, nothing crazy, but I feel like he was rude to me and I was rude back to him, and I shouldn’t have been.”
The singer clarified he posted the original video out of frustration, not ego.
“I don’t expect this dude or anybody to ever know who I am… I’m just a person who does this for a living. I think what was frustrating to me is that we had the ‘All Access’ credentials on and still got kicked out.”
Marlowe’s hour-long set at Country Jam ran from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. Other artists scheduled to perform at the festival included Tigirlily Gold, Craig Morgan, and Sam Hunt.
This story was written with the assistance of AI.
