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The Jonas Brothers brought more than a sibling experience onstage for their latest Detroit appearance \u2014 they served up a full-blown family affair.<\/p>\n Nostalgia was thick Thursday, Aug. 28, inside a sold-out Little Caesars Arena as the trio celebrated 20 years in the music biz for a charged-up, now grown-up audience ready to party like it was 2008, complete with colorful handmade posters and piercing shrieks. (The \u201cI \u2665 Hot Dads\u201d shirts sported by a few fans across the arena did confirm we were definitely in 2025.)<\/p>\n \u201cEach and every one of you are part of the story,\u201d Nick Jonas told the crowd. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The Jonas Brothers\u2019 latest tour has been marked by nightly special guests, and Detroit\u2019s came in the form of Russell Dickerson, the long-working country singer whose career recently got a kickstart thanks to TikTok. The 38-year-old Tennessean took the stage to perform “Happen to Me,” his hit with its viral dance.<\/p>\n Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas are a quarter of the way into a 52-show tour dubbed Jonas 20: Greetings from Your Hometown, marking two decades since the siblings burst onto the scene with their Disney-stamped pop-rock. (The Detroit show was originally scheduled for Comerica Park and would have been one of several stadium dates on the run before it was downsized to LCA.)<\/p>\n It\u2019s all part of a busy, nostalgic year that included March\u2019s JONASCON in the band\u2019s native New Jersey stomping grounds, along with a recent seventh studio album, \u201cGreetings from Your Hometown,\u201d and the planned holiday release of \u201cA Very Jonas Christmas\u201d on Disney+.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s anniversary tour may seem superfluous, considering that the brothers were at LCA precisely two years ago this week running through the bulk of their catalog in a career retrospective called \u201cFive Albums. One Night.\u201d<\/p>\n But Thursday was a lively career recap nonetheless, delivered with seasoned polish from three guys in their 30s who were already seasoned and polished when they hit the showbiz radar as kids. In a two-act set, the Jonas Brothers tapped everything from their very earliest stuff \u2014 songs written long ago in their New Jersey living room \u2014 to music from the new album, including the return-to-form \u201cLove Me to Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n In between were segments that captured the wider breadth of the Jonas journey, with songs from the assorted solo releases and side projects of Nick and Joe, as eldest brother Kevin dutifully manned his guitar throughout the night amid the 11-piece backing outfit and horn section.<\/p>\n The sizzle moments came with songs like \u201cS.O.S.,\u201d a Nick Jonas solo turn on \u201cJealous,\u201d a performance of the neon-streaked disco-pop \u201cCake by the Ocean\u201d by Joe Jonas and his DNCE bandmate JinJoo Lee, along with a late-show Nick-vs.-Joe medley that had the two chopping back and forth between respective solo material.<\/p>\n And then came the obligatory hit-packed closing stretch, as the catchy enchantment of \u201cLovebug\u201d led into a festive, arena-shaking twofer of \u201cYear 3000\u201d and \u201cBurnin\u2019 Up.\u201d<\/p>\n Fan engagement has long been part of the Jonas live approach, and the group assisted in its latest onstage gender reveal: With an expectant Clarkston couple watching on from the LCA mezzanine, the band performed a poignant \u201cLittle Bird\u201d before Joe ripped open an envelope to announce \u201cBoy!\u201d to a roar from the crowd.<\/p>\n It was family night for the Jonas Brothers, too. Baby brother Franklin Jonas, 24, opened the bill with a 15-minute set of banjo-inflected Americana with his band the Byzantines, venturing into the audience as he sang a cover of Coldplay\u2019s \u201cYellow\u201d in an otherwise low-key set. This was, he pointed out, the first arena concert of his budding music career.<\/p>\n Franklin would be back to help finish the night. Following his brothers\u2019 acoustic \u201cPlease Be Mine\u201d \u2014 accompanied by 2004 footage of the group\u2019s CBS-TV debut with that same song \u2014 they all assembled onstage with dad Kevin Jonas Sr. at piano for a family-reunion performance of \u201cWhen You Look Me in the Eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n The two-hour-plus extravaganza included a loud and brisk pop-punk opening set from Boston band Boys Like Girls, while DJ and Jonas pal Marshmello was the intermission act with 20 minutes of lasers, confetti and hit tunes.<\/p>\n Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or bmccollum@freepress.com.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.freep.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Jonas Brothers brought more than a sibling experience onstage for their latest Detroit appearance \u2014 they served up a full-blown family affair. 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