It’s time for another “Singing on the Square.”

The monthly event will be this Friday starting at 6:30 p.m. in the heart of Athens on the square.

Singing on the Square resembles an ole-time-revival, with lawn chairs spread out on the east side of the courthouse holding an assemble of people with waving fans to the tune of the band.

A 300 plus crowd turnout is expected for this month’s singing, to be performed by The Silver Eagle Band.

“If you want to have some fun and listen to some good music come and see us. If you want to dance, dance, and if you want to just sit and listen, listen. Just as long as you like good music, you’ll enjoy it,” said Chuck Owen, a member of the band.

The Silver Eagle Band is a family oriented band consisting of Marty Tyler, his two sons, Jesse and Jake Tyler, and Owen and his wife, Pat Owen.

“We are predominantly country with a hint of southern rock,” said Jesse Tyler.

Marty Tyler plays lead guitar and sings, Jesse plays rhythm guitar and sings, Jake plays drums, Chuck plays bass and sings and Pat is on lead vocals and backup vocals.

The band covers country singers like Brooks and Dunn, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Jr., and Hank Williams Sr., “both Georges”, George Jones, and George Strait, Waylon Jennings, and Vince Gill, among others.

However, they try to put their own twist on the music.

“We don’t try to copy any of the singers. We have our own style to it,” said Owen.

The band is also working on an album with hopes to record it soon.

“We have a few original songs we haven’t gone public with yet,” said Owen.

Originally, the group was a part of another band for several years and their lead singer retired.

“We actually started out backing a singer and he quit. So we just kept the band together and kept going,” said Marty Tyler.

Now, Chuck and Marty, with their long line of musical background, serve as the unofficial foundation for The Silver Eagle Band.

Owen, who grew up in Nashville, Tenn., has been in music for more than 20 years. When he met Pat his influence rubbed off on her.

“My wife’s been singing for about 35 years. I was a musician when I met her and we’ve been married for 37 years,” he said.

He said his love for music started as a child and evidently became his way to survive.

“When I was 14 years old, I played rhythm guitar with a friend and we had left home. That’s how we feed ourselves,” he said.

He and his friend would travel from little bar to bar, “playing for nickels and dimes” until they were run off because of their age, he said.

“It’s a habit that I’m hooked on,” Owen said.

Marty said his love of music started in a high school band.

“Even back in my high school years, that’s what I lived for, music, being in the band,” he said. “I first started playing guitar at about 13 years old. The first band I started playing in was in the late 70’s and that was a rock ‘n’ roll band.”

Marty said the name of their band came from older music they listened to and were influenced by them.

“When Diamond Rio came out they were telling how they got their name. It’s a name of a truck,” Tyler said.

Then he heard an old George Jones song called, “Who’s going to fill their shoes?” and new from the lyrics their band had to be named after the Silver Eagle bus line.

“There’s one line in the song that goes, ‘Ole Marty, Hank, and Lefty, I feel them right hear with me on this Silver Eagle rolling through the night,’” he said.

The band has played at several functions in Limestone County including the welcome center opening, city picnic, and the Piney Chapel Tractor Show. They have also played at Davy Crockett Park in Lawrenceburg, Tenn. and at the Tennessee Valley Jamboree in Lawrenceburg, as well.

“If we were trying to play music for a living, we’d probably starve. Right now there’s a lot of competition,” said Owen. “But we do it because we enjoy it. If we make it, we make it. If we don’t, we don’t, but we just enjoy it.”

“That’s what we really thrive on, if people are enjoying it and into it, it gets us into it,” Tyler added.