Thompson Square

press release: Country music fans are in for a hip-swaying, foot-stomping, toe-tapping time when Thompson Square takes the stage at Overture’s Capitol Theater on Friday, Nov. 22, at 8 pm. The award-winning country duo Thompson Square will perform a new batch of poetic and extremely personal country music as the married couple enters a new chapter of their life. They will fill the stage with the passionate potency from their album Masterpiece (released May 2019), which features a fearless range of sounds and personality.

Since breaking out in 2010 with 2X-PLATINUM #1 chart-breaker “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not,” husband-and-wife team Keifer and Shawna Thompson have delivered two Top 5 country albums and another romantic #1 hit with PLATINUM-certified “If I Didn’t Have You”—plus two more Top 10s with “I Got You” and “Everything I Shouldn’t Be Thinking About.” With five Top 20 hits, nearly 1 BILLION digital streams and a social media following of over 1.9 million, the duo has been honored with multiple GRAMMY nominations and wins at the ACM and CMA Awards for Vocal Duo of the Year. The Reviver Entertainment duo has tallied national television appearances on TODAY, Fox & Friends, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Conan, Hallmark’s Home & Family and CBS This Morning.

After welcoming their son, Cooper, in 2016, Thompson Square released their third studio album, Masterpiece, produced by the duo alongside GRAMMY winner Nathan Chapman (Taylor Swift), perennial hitmaker Dann Huff (Keith Urban) and Ilya Toshinskiy.

“It’s named after what we consider our masterpiece—our son, Cooper,” Keifer explains. “We feel like he’s the best thing we’ve ever made, and he inspired this whole album.”

Working with a new, independent mindset, Masterpiece arrives at the beginning of an exciting new chapter for the duo—and it finds them taking skillful control of their acclaimed musical bond.

Brought together by love and undeniable talent, Keifer and Shawna each moved to Nashville separately but soon met while competing against one another in a local singing competition. They formed Thompson Square as complete unknowns, taking the country scene by storm with an organic vocal blend that harkened back to the duets of icons like Johnny Cash and June Carter.

Masterpiece is an album filled with all the passionate potency Thompson Square is known for, plus a fearless new range of sounds and personality. Pristine Country balladry is joined by sandy reggae funk, fire breathing arena rock and sensual R&B, as the duo strives to be honest with each song’s creative genesis.

“It is extremely diverse,” Shawna admits about the 11 new tracks, nine of which poured from their own hearts. “We didn’t design it that way, but Keifer and I love all types of music, and I think that shows more on this record than any of the others.”