The Boxmasters rock The Doulgass Theatre

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – An Oscar award winning actor is in Macon tonight, but he’s not in town to shoot a movie.

Billy Bob Thornton and his band “The Boxmasters” played at the historic Douglass Theatre. Despite his fame and huge success as an actor, Thornton says music is his true love.

Thornton said, “We are a rock n’ roll band, we are an American rock n’ roll band influenced by the British invasion. When I saw The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, I said that’s what I want to do right there and I think a lot of other kids are the same way.”

The Boxmasters are celebrating their 10th year as a band.  Their United States “Tea Surfing” tour wraps up in May. The band heads to Wisconsin next.