Kevin Bacon performs ‘Footloose’ with brother at Stagecoach

Kevin Bacon really doesn’t want you to ask him to do the Footloose dance if you ever see him at a wedding. But he’ll gladly perform the song for you if you score a ticket to one of his shows.

The star of the beloved 1984 musical drama took to the Palomino stage at Stagecoach Festival on Sunday to perform a rollicking rendition of Kenny Loggins’ title track from the film alongside his brother, Michael Bacon.

The Bacon brothers have been making music and performing in an official capacity as the Bacon Brothers for more than 30 years, and they showed no signs of slowing down as they shredded on the guitar, banged a tambourine, and sang the ode to lacing up your best dancing shoes.

A TikTok video posted by the official Stagecoach account captured a segment of the performance, celebrating that “the legend of The Bacon Brothers is alive.”

Bacon posted his own TikTok walking through the backstage area for the performers, who included Goo Goo Dolls, Sammy Hagar, Luke Combs, and the Backstreet Boys. “Coming into our little Stagecoach home away from home,” Bacon said, giddily adding that he’d “never opened for the Backstreet Boys before.”

Backstreet Boys closed out the festival, delivering a rousing 90-minute tour through their hit-studded discography that culminated in Combs joining the band to sing their 1999 classic “I Want it That Way.”

Footloose marked a major breakout for Bacon, who starred as Ren McCormack, a city boy who lights up a small, religious Utah town with his quicksilver moves. Though the actor, 66, went on to star in a number of successful films and series that have endured in the cultural consciousness, his Footloose role seems to follow him like none other has.

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Bacon has gladly channeled Footloose to celebrate occasions like the end of the 2023 actors’ strike. But he also opened up in 2023 about having “rejected” the fame Herbert Ross’ film brought him early on, explaining it was not “what my idea of a serious actor was,” because at the time, “the last thing I wanted to be was a pop star.”

Earlier this year, Bacon said that his “worst nightmare is to be at a wedding and the DJ puts on the music” to the film, recalling in horror how “people will literally form a circle around me and clap their hands like I’m a trained monkey.”

Other headliners at the 2025 edition of the country music festival held annually in Indio, Calif., included Zach Bryan, Creed, Jelly Roll, and, surprisingly for those who haven’t been following her slow transition to honky tonk diva, Lana Del Rey.

The “Born to Die” singer stunned her audience Friday with a performance of a new song titled “57.5,” a reference to her “57.5 million listeners on Spotify.” “I kissed Morgan Wallen / I guess kissing me kind of went to his head,” Del Rey sang, referencing the musician who courted controversy by, among other things, abruptly exiting the Saturday Night Live stage after his March hosting stint.

Del Rey continued, “If you want my secret to success, / I suggest don’t go ATVing with him when you’re out West.”