An American boy band says they’re excited to carry out their hit songs on the 111th Gray Cup half-time present — their first stay expertise at a Canadian Soccer League recreation. 

The Jonas Brothers, made up of Kevin, Joe and Nick, will carry out an approximate 15-minute set for followers at BC Place in Vancouver through the soccer match on Sunday between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Argonauts. 

The blue and gold wish to win their third Gray Cup inside 5 consecutive seasons. 

“I feel any alternative to get folks in a spot like this to have fun collectively — whether or not it is music, sports activities — it is an thrilling evening,” Joe Jonas mentioned throughout a press convention on the soccer discipline Saturday. 

“I really feel like, simply even watching among the highlights of the playoffs in our resort room, you see the thrill of a few of these followers that love their groups and are so supportive,” he mentioned, including that the brothers are thrilled to play for a soccer crowd in Canada. 

Watching the NFL was an enormous a part of their upbringing whereas rising up in New Jersey, Nick Jonas mentioned. The brothers grew to become New York Giants followers and rivaled in opposition to their dad who cheered for the Dallas Cowboys. 

“Even in case you’re on opposing sides, you come collectively, have fun an ideal recreation and I feel it simply seems like an ideal match for us to be part of an occasion like that that is so significant to folks right here in Canada,” he mentioned. 

Whereas the band members are predicting a high-scoring recreation between the Blue Bombers and Argonauts, additionally they spoke about what soccer place they want to play in the event that they got the possibility. 

“Kevin is certainly the kicker as a result of he kicked a discipline aim for the [Los Angeles] Rams for a bit of TV bit that we did and it was really fairly spectacular,” Joe Jonas mentioned, including that he could be a quarterback. 

“I kicked a discipline aim after which an precise kicker didn’t, in order that’s my declare to fame proper now,” Kevin Jonas mentioned. 

Nick Jonas mentioned he could not present any reasoning for his alternative of eager to play as security apart from that “it simply feels proper.”

The band mentioned they needed to get selective with their set checklist to squeeze in as many songs as they’ll through the half-time present and are excited to carry out on the stadium that holds almost 55,000 folks.

Stealing the present

Hundreds have been flocking from out of province to Vancouver this week to watch the sport, however the Jonas Brothers are stealing the present for some whose underlying purpose to be at tonight’s recreation is to observe the 15-minute half-time present. 

“The Gray Cup, sure, soccer is nice … principally got here for the Jonas Brothers,” Janelle Head advised CBC Information. 

Head joined a gaggle of household and associates final minute to be on the Gray Cup recreation, so she may watch the boy band for the second time this yr. 

“Is there are any phrases for that? Like, how do you describe perfection all in a bit of decrease mainland like magical bubble — I’m so excited, I am unable to wait.”

B.C.’s tourism ministry says it expects the sport’s festivities to herald 30,000 out-of-province followers and drive an financial enhance of $125 million.