Nick DeMaio III, has a strong, booming voice. And though he’s from Darien, he’s got the tinge of an accent that comes from singing country music for the past 30 years. “We once went on tour with President George H.W. Bush and we also performed for President George W. Bush here in Connecticut,” said DeMaio III, 57, who was sporting a red and black flannel shirt and a black cowboy hat.

DeMaio’s interest in country music came from his father, Nick DeMaio Jr., who played minor-league baseball throughout Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma in the 1950s and died in 2015. “When he was playing baseball, he listened to more and more mainstream country music and eventually became a musician himself,” DeMaio III said. “My brother and I got exposed to this music from a young age and it’s been our music of choice ever since.”