Rapper Bryce Vine, singer Natalie Jane to perform at Adrian College spring concert

ADRIAN — Rapper/singer Bryce Vine and singer/songwriter Natalie Jane will headline Adrian College’s annual spring concert scheduled for April 19 in the Merillat Sports and Fitness Center’s blue gym, with doors opening at 7 p.m.

“This year, we changed things up, just like our students wanted, by bringing in a completely different sound, compared to the country singers we brought in the last two years,” Anna Montgomery, Adrian College director of student life, said in a news release. “Bryce (Vine) and Natalie (Jane) are going to win over our campus and community with their unique styles of entertaining.”

General admission tickets to the spring concert are on sale for $30 each and can be purchased online at adriancollege.hometownticketing.com/embed/event/359. The concert is open to the public.

The Merillat Sports and Fitness Center is along South Charles Street on the Adrian College campus. Built in 1990, it provides educational, recreation and fitness facilities for all Adrian College students, faculty members and staff. The 80,000 square-foot complex includes a multi-sport field house for general recreational use with courts for basketball, volleyball and tennis, surrounded by a one-tenth mile indoor track.

According to Adrian College, Vine said his music style is drawn in equal parts from the bass-heavy reality rap influence of his father, the bright, pop sensibility of his mother, and a childhood spent between New York and Los Angeles. He made his major label debut with “Carnival,” released in 2019 with inspirations that reference his favorite science fiction TV shows, 90s nostalgia and commentary on growing up in LA, while “fusing the punk spirit of Blink-182 with homages to Tupac and OutKast,” he said.

Vine saw breakthrough success with his two-time Platinum “Drew Barrymore,” as he spent much of 2019 on sold-out headline tours across the United States. He earned further hits with the Platinum “La La Land,” featuring YG; and “I’m Not Alright” with Loud Luxury and accumulating more than 720 million streams worldwide with over 15 million streams per week.

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Vine also has performed live on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “Wendy Williams,” “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” “The Late, Late Show with James Corden” and “Live with Kelly and Ryan.”

Jane, meanwhile, said she is all about being honest — even when the feelings she’s “plunging into” are “murky” and “unsettled.”

The New Jersey native was inspired to lean into her vocal prowess by the women she listened to growing up. After graduating high school and turning down the Berklee College of Music to pursue her pop career full-time, Jane said she realized her honesty was one of her greatest strengths. She believes her willingness to be completely open is why she’s gained such a fervent audience.

“I’m saying exactly what I’m feeling, and I think people can resonate with that,” she said.

On her Capitol Music Group/10K Projects debut EP, the song “AVA” helped establish Natalie Jane as a force in pop, amassing more than 730 million TikTok views, landing on the charts in four countries since its release, and inspiring concertgoers who saw her open for Bishop Briggs and Misterwives to “get into a frenzy, yelling the opening lyrics at top volume,” Adrian College said.

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