Matt Maeson @ Boulder Theater

Matt Maeson brought his solo acoustic tour to Boulder, CO on September 24, 2023. Putting on an intimate & killer show at Boulder Theater. To kick off the night was Brennan Smiley, also doing a solo acoustic set.

Brennan Smiley

Brennan Smiley is a singer/songwriter out of Phoenix, AZ. Sessioning in LA, Nashville & Phoenix since the age of 16, his time was well utilized by trips back & forth to Nashville on weekends during his high school years. Brennan is also a part of Matt Maeson’s touring band and in his own band called “The Technicolors”.

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Matt Maeson

Chesapeake Bay native, Matt Maeson, plays a dark-hued brand of rock that mixes gritty folk elements with slick modern pop production. The singer/songwriter first found success with his 2017 single “Cringe”. He then topped Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart with “Hallucinogenics” from his 2019 debut album, Bank On the Funeral. Over the next two years, Maeson focused on collaborations, and in 2021 formed the project USERx with producer Rozwell. In 2022, he returned to his solo work with the single “Blood Runs Red”.

Maeson took to music early, learning drums and guitar at a young age and eventually touring as part of his father’s prison ministry. Already a budding songwriter struggling through a rebellious period in his late teens, the experience of performing at high-security prisons and various other dark corners of society made a lasting impression on Maeson and helped realign his focus on his career as a singer/songwriter. Melding bluesy indie folk and modern production, he began posting tracks online and eventually caught the ear of Atlantic affiliate Neon Gold Records, which signed him in 2016. Maeson embarked on his first headlining tour that summer, which was presented by Communion, the music organization founded by Mumford & Sons‘ Ben Lovett.

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