Brothers Osborne closed out the summer stretch of Calvert Marine Museum’s Waterside Music Series with a homecoming show Saturday night, playing the open-air PNC Waterside Pavilion in Solomons in front of a packed crowd as evening heat and humidity settled over the Patuxent River.
For John and TJ Osborne, the show carried extra weight — the brothers grew up just up the road in Deale, writing and playing songs together in their father’s shed long before Nashville came calling. John moved to Nashville first to play in other bands; TJ joined him two years later, and the two formed Brothers Osborne, blending country songwriting with a rock-leaning “twang-and-crunch” sound that’s earned them spots on “Ones to Watch” lists from Rolling Stone, Billboard and Spotify. That local connection has made them one of the Waterside Music Series’ most anticipated returning acts, drawing a full pavilion for a rare chance to see a duo with 13 GRAMMY nominations and a 2022 GRAMMY win play essentially in their own backyard.
The set leaned into the catalog fans came to hear, built around hits like “It Ain’t My Fault,” “Stay a Little Longer,” “21 Summer,” “Younger Me” and “Shoot Me Straight.” The show also marked a milestone year for the band: 2026 is the 10th anniversary of Pawn Shop, the breakthrough album that first put them on the national map.
Nashville singer-songwriter Trey Pendley opened the night before Brothers Osborne took the stage as the sun dropped low over the water. Conditions were typical for late August in Solomons — warm and humid into the evening, with the waterfront setting offering at least some breeze off the Patuxent for the crowd.
Saturday’s concert was the third of four shows in this year’s Waterside Music Series, which opened June 13 with an Almost Queen tribute night and continued July 24 with country artist Warren Zeiders; ZZ Top closes out the 2026 season on September 11. The pavilion itself — officially the Motto Mortgage Preferred and RE/MAX One Waterside Pavilion — is fully open-air, with no roof over the seating area, and holds roughly 2,200 seated guests plus standing room for another 4,786.
The series has deep roots at the museum: Calvert Marine Museum introduced live music to the community in 1985, and the Waterside Music Series has since grown into what the museum describes as the most popular performing-arts venue in Southern Maryland, and its single largest fundraiser, generating close to 40% of the museum’s annual budget. Those proceeds help fund educational programming that reaches more than 20,000 children a year. Past acts on the same stage span multiple genres and generations, from Rock and Roll Hall of Famers like B.B. King, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and the Allman Brothers to country legends including Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Hank Williams Jr.
Concert parking was available across the street at Glascock Field for $10 per vehicle, with additional parking in Solomons’ public lots.
