“Rockin’ Eve” performer Megan Moroney doesn’t assume she’ll be locking lips with anybody at midnight in Instances Sq. — perhaps.
“As of now, the answer is no,” the nation star advised The Put up. “Unless I meet some sort of hot cowboy in New York . . . We’re still looking.”
Too unhealthy probably the most well-known cowboy in Instances Sq., Robert Burck, aka the Bare Cowboy, is married and 27 years her senior, or that would have been a made-for-TV second.
The Savannah, GA, native — who will probably be acting at “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” for the primary time this yr — is not any stranger to NYC. Her dad is a Bronx native.
“I’ve been to New York since I was a baby. My dad has six brothers, so I’ve been coming to New York for forever,” she mentioned.
“And I remember being on my grandma’s couch in New Jersey and I would fall asleep around nine, but then I would wake up to see the ball drop and the performers and stuff. So it’s like a full circle moment.”
The Savannah, GA, native — who will probably be acting at “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” for the primary time this yr — is not any stranger to NYC. Her dad is a Bronx native.
“I’ve been to New York since I was a baby. My dad has six brothers, so I’ve been coming to New York for forever,” she mentioned.
“And I remember being on my grandma’s couch in New Jersey and I would fall asleep around nine, but then I would wake up to see the ball drop and the performers and stuff. So it’s like a full circle moment.”
Moroney, 27, a College of Georgia alum, was in Manhattan in August and made certain to cease on the Midtown watering gap American Whiskey on West thirtieth Road, which is a hangout for her alma mater.
“I bought everyone in the bar a round of shots,” she mentioned.
When she was a freshman in faculty, Moroney pledged the sorority Kappa Delta, and was found at her sorority’s philanthropy occasion, the place nation singer John Langston carried out.
“Yeah, it’s crazy. We had a concert and we used our budget on John Langston and they were like, ‘Well, Megan will do it for free. She can get up and sing something,’” she remembered.
“I literally, at the time, sang three cover songs because I didn’t even have songs yet. I believe it was ‘Mama’s Broken Heart’ by Miranda Lambert and probably a Kacey Musgraves song, maybe like ‘Merry Go ‘Round.’”
Nation singer Chase Rice was within the viewers, and ended up inviting her to sing at his upcoming live performance on the Georgia Theatre, and the remaining goes down in nation music historical past.
“He said, ‘You can open for me next month, but I need you to write an original song,’ so I wrote my first song,” she recalled.
In July, Moroney, who has 1.6 million followers on Instagram, launched her second album “Am I Okay?” which debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 and No. 3 on Billboard’s Prime Nation Albums chart.
One of many songs on the file, titled “Heaven By Noon,” was impressed by her uncle, who died on Sept. 11 within the World Commerce Middle, and his final dialog together with her aunt.
“When I was writing it and thinking about my aunt, I thought that it would be a good way to honor him,” she mentioned.
“I get a lot of messages about that song specifically, that it helps [fans] through a very difficult time in their life.”
Moroney, who has headlined on the Bowery Ballroom and opened for Kenny Chesney at MetLife Stadium, will probably be again in New York in March, as she performs Radio Metropolis Music Corridor for the primary time, to kick off her “Am I Okay?” tour within the U.S.
“To be able to have two nights at Radio City is such a dream come true,” she gushed. “That’s gonna be a pinch-me moment.”
