Saddle Up with Brian Scott

Not to alarm you, but we can read your mind… and it’s filthy. Your fantasies are a swirling wonderland of cowboys, love songs and manly swagger. It’s like Brokeback Mountain: The Musical in that brain of yours!

But don’t worry (much) because there’s a macho maestro who’s ready to orchestrate OMG to the max. Brian Scott will be romancing your pants off at NEST FEST, so we hitched a ride to this rising star to learn his heartthrob/honkey-tonk origin story.

I was born and raised in Orange County, California. So, I’m a California boy through and through, but my mother lived in Arkansas, so I spent a lot of time in the South getting my roots. That’s where my country comes in. But this community has always embraced me as just a regular citizen and me as Brian Scott.

There’s a dazzling duality at play whenever Scott opens his scruffy mouth. He regards his on-stage persona as a separate entity altogether, but his beefy baritone weaves both halves of his identity together as he continues crooning.

I have always been a performer at heart, and I am a Gemini, so I have two different personalities. I’ve got one that is kind of shy and a little reserved, and that’s off the stage, but when I am on a stage, I turn into a performer where sex comes out in my performance. It’s just a sexiness that I really don’t think I have off the stage… So, you’re going to get a little bit of sex appeal. You’re going to get a little bit of flirtation in my show. I can’t do a show without getting into my audience. I cannot just stand on the stage and sing for you. I’ve got to get out into the crowd, I’ve got to see you face to face, and I’ve got to make that connection.

Not only does Scott’s velvet vibrato strum our heartstrings, but he also taps into the depths of harmony and togetherness that we all crave.

I’ll perform for anybody who gives me a microphone, but I just love performing for my community, and the more I do, the more I see them falling in love… I have a lot of people that come to my show and come up to me afterwards and they’ll tell me, “You know, I wasn’t a country fan until I heard you, and now I’m hooked. Now I’m there with you.” And it’s like, wow. And then I always try to find out why that intersect is happening for them… I was a theater major in college, and I didn’t find country music until Garth Brooks, and when Garth Brooks hit the scene, I kind of intertwined my theater into my country. So, I feel as though I’ve got a little bit something different for the country community that the LGBTQ+ community can grab a hold of, and I’m turning people into country fans daily with my shows, and I love that.

It’s a love that will be on full display at Nest Fest the first weekend of March.

I’ve never been to The Roost as far as a performer goes, so it’ll be my first. I’m a Roost virgin, so that’s exciting for me. And what I’m going to do is I’m going to intermix a lot of upbeat, fun music that people can clap along to, sing along to, and as well as some original material that I’ve written myself. So you’re going to get a preview of a little Brian Scott original music. I can’t wait. I’m super excited and I’m thankful that they’ve asked me to be a part of it.

Scott is a roving romantic, but no matter how far he roams, the warmth of our desert family always draws him home.

Sometimes I get this itch to go try something new. I’m very adventurous, and I’ve moved to New Mexico and I opened up a restaurant and a retail store and made all that success, but… I came back and then I worked another 10 years here, and then I went to Oklahoma to be with my father and stayed there for a couple years and always wanted to come back. It’s just like this I know is home, and just to be able to be embraced by this community with what I do as an entertainer is such a blessing… There is a sense of love, community, safety. It just feels like home, it feels like comfort. And we all, as human beings, all gravitate to where we feel comfortable. This community, Palm Springs, the entire Valley makes us as a community, as the LGBTQ+ people, feel safe and embraced and where we can be ourselves. I mean, what better scenario can you ask for than to be yourself, or to be able to walk down the street holding hands, to be able to flirt with the male people in my audience or the lesbians in the audience? It’s just such a community, and we are all so lucky to be able to live here, really.

When given the opportunity to speak directly to fans with his considerate closing thoughts, Brian Scott doesn’t disappoint.

I just won the 2022 OUTstanding Award for Male Entertainer of the Year via GED Magazine, and I just want to thank all of the readers and all of the people who tirelessly come to my shows week after week after week and support me and love me and embrace me. I just want to give them a big shout-out and a big thank you very much, and I love them, and as long as God gives me a voice, I am here for you.

And we’re so here for you, Mr. Scott! To be precise, we’re at The Roost Lounge eagerly awaiting your arrival. See you on the fierce frontier…
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