The Bacon Brothers kicked off their Sunday shoes.
Kevin Bacon, 66, performed the song “Footloose” by Kenny Loggins at the Stagecoach Festival alongside his brother, Michael Bacon.
The tune is the title track in the 1984 musical drama “Footloose,” which starred Kevin, Lori Singer, Chris Penn, John Lithgow and Sarah Jessica Parker.
The siblings are no strangers to the stage as they’ve been performing as the Bacon Brothers for over 30 years.
The country music festival’s official TikTok shared footage from Kevin and Michael’s rendition, which saw “The Following” actor singing and playing the tambourine. The film score composer, 75, stood next to Kevin singing and playing the guitar.
The account captioned the video: “The legend of the Bacon Brothers is alive in the Palomino.”
Kevin also took to TikTok to share a clip of himself backstage, explaining to followers, “Coming into our little Stagecoach home away from home,” before adding that he’d “never opened for the Backstreet Boys before.”
The Backstreet Boys closed down the festival with their 90-minute set and even had country superstar Luke Combs hit the stage to sing the 1999 hit tune “I Want it That Way” with them.
Kevin kicked off his movie career in 1979 after making his feature film debut in “National Lampoon’s Animal House.” Three years later, he was in the 1982 comedy/drama “Diner” before landing the leading role in “Footloose.”
Kevin starred as Ren McCormack, a boy from Chicago who finds out the new town he calls home in Utah has outlawed dancing and rock music.
Although it’s the film that made him a star, Kevin isn’t always keen on reliving the project during certain moments.
“My worst nightmare is to be at a wedding and the DJ puts on the music,” he said at SXSW in March. “They always start out being about the bride, and then there’s alcohol involved. And by about 10:30, the song comes on, and suddenly the wedding becomes about me getting out and dancing. People will literally form a circle around me and clap their hands like I’m a trained monkey.”
Now, Kevin will ask the DJ, “Please don’t play that song” while at weddings.
“It’s not because I don’t love the song, I do love this song,” the Golden Globe winner explained. “It’s not because I’m not proud of the movie, I’m 100% proud of it.”
Kevin also reflected on landing the role and the fame that came with it.
“The script was not written in that way at all, and there was no indication other than one line, like, he gets pissed off and dances or something,” he said about finding out it was a dance film. “I was not a trained dancer.”
“It’s what I wanted, I have no one to blame but myself. It was definitely my dream to have all those things,” the “Bondsman” actor admitted of becoming a household name. “But until you really have that, you don’t really realize there’s something kind of strange about it.”
For Kevin, posing shirtless for teen magazines felt “the opposite” of how he wanted to view himself at the time.
These days, the “I Love Dick” star has still only watched the cult classic “three or four times.”
Even more, Kevin confessed his two kids, Travis, 35, and Sosie, 33, whom he shares with wife Kyra Sedgwick, have never seen the movie.
As he put it: “What’s up with that?”
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