Forest O'Quinn live from Dingus Magees
Here in Statesboro, live country music can be heard just about at every bar and restaurant on the weekends. Statesboro is home to a large amount of young, talented, and starving music artists. There have even been some who made it big that started out singing in little ol’ Statesboro, just like the ones you can go see locally. Luke Bryan and Cole Swindell are two of the biggest country music stars today.
Bars often hire local music artist to come perform at the bar, and they tend to be students for the most part. One rather popular country singer is Forest O’Quinn. Forest who is currently a student at Georgia Southern, and makes some extra money on the weekends doing what he does best, which is singing.
Forest is very talented and the crowd seems to love him. Tonight he is performing for a crowd full of eagles, at the most popular and oldest local bar.
This little old bar is a staple to the town. Dingus is located right in the heart of campus. Yes this bar is on the campus of Georgia Southern.
Alumnae, students, and even locals love this place for the atmosphere, the live music, and the amazing food.
Dingus hires singers and bands come play throughout the week, every week. They are paid with the cover, which is $5.00. One of Dingus’s favored singers is a student at Georgia Southern named Forrest O’Quinn.
It’s a typical college bar atmosphere. You can smell the greasy food being cooked in the kitchen along with the smell of old beer, from the night before that was spilt on the ground. Dingus is old, it looks like it has seen some good times and hasn’t changed since it opened. There is a stage in the back that is rather small, and a place for people to dance in front of it.
Forest is sitting on the stage with his guitar, strumming away to some of the hottest country songs on the charts. He has a rather raspy and deep voice, which makes for some good tunes to hear. He sounds like Dierks Bentley.
The crowd seems to love him, even though the sound system at Dingus isn’t the best.
It seems like forest has a good group of supporters who are hear to listen to him sing, mainly his fraternity brothers. All around I would have to recommend going to see Forest live if you like good country music, I could definitely see him going somewhere with his singing voice someday. You never know, he could end up like some of those famous country music stars that started in this little country town we call eagle nation.
