Taylor Swift gave her first public performance since the fall 2024 conclusion of her Eras Tour last night (June 24) at Nashville’s 1,200-capacity Brooklyn Bowl, as she hopped onstage during a Kane Brown-led benefit for an impromptu version of her hit “Shake It Off.” See fan-shot footage below.
Last night’s event, Tight Ends & Friends, was organized by a group of NFL players, including Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce. It also featured performances by Chase Rice, Jordan Davis and Sophia Scott. Swift emerged at the conclusion of Brown’s performance after he introduced her as a “really, really, really, really special guest,”
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Swift explained that she was happily enjoying the show from the balcony as a spectator but that her curiosity got the better of her. “We were thinking, like, how loud could this place get? Theoretically, how loud could the singing be in here?’ So, I was like, I don’t have a guitar, but then Chase Rice was like, you can use mine.’
With Brown aiding on percussion, Swift ran through “Shake It Off” amid shrieks from the crowd, and afterwards saluted the other musicians on stage. “Will you please give it up for this amazing band, who just figured out that we were going to play that three minutes ago?,” she said. Brown nodded to the enormity of the moment in a subsequent Instagram post, writing, “when you think you’re the special guest BUT you’re not.”
Swift has been off the road this year while working on new material and completing the acquisition of the rights to her entire music catalog, which were controversially sold to a third party in 2019.
📽️| Better version of Taylor Shaking It the fuck Off with the Tight Ends in Nashville! pic.twitter.com/LL5rn7uv72
— Taylor Swift Updates 🩶 (@swifferupdates) June 25, 2025
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