With countless people flowing in and out of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house Saturday night, the locally known band Roane County Split played what it knows best – a mix of country and rock mixed with a unique style of their own.

Delta Tau Delta President Shaune Parker said having the band play at their house is something everyone looks forward to, especially because Delta Tau Delta alumnus Garret Reeser is one of the guitarists in the band.

“It’s cool for Reeser to come and play with the band at the house because he gets to come back to where he lived, have the band play for everyone and then hang out with us all after he is done,” Parker said. “He supports the house in a lot of ways, and I think him being able to come back and play for everyone means a lot to both him and our house especially.”

Having played around Baldwin City before, this is not the first time the Baker University campus has heard the music of Roane County Split.

Junior Kyle Ruona said this was the third time the band has played for an audience at the fraternity, in addition to having a recent show at the Baldwin City restaurant Hickory Creek.

“I’ve known (lead vocalist) Ryne Jackson since before college since we are both Baldwin townies and I know that the band as a whole loves coming down and playing for us because the crowd is usually really good and they know a lot of people here,” Ruona said. “They are the type of band who would rather play a free show for us here at Baker than make money somewhere else.”

With a number of different ways to inform students about the band including, Facebook.com and MySpace.com, Parker said it was not hard to get a well-attended audience.

“We were actually only expecting around 80 people or so, but ended up having around 160 people toward the end of the night,” Parker said. “You can only imagine how crowded it got to be, and I know the majority of the people were mainly there to listen to the band play.”

Freshman Steph Vanderwig said when she showed up around 11:30 p.m., it was so crowded they had to start kicking people out.

“When I got there late, they were already asking people to leave to make more room,” Vanderwig said. “Hopefully they will come back so I can actually see them next time.”

On the other hand, senior Ross Thompson made it in early enough to listen to the band and said he was surprised at how good they were.

“I really enjoyed the music they played and it seemed like everyone else around me enjoyed it too,” Thompson said. “I liked it because they played their own music and still had the crowd interested in what they were playing.”

With a full plate of upcoming events for Roane County Split, Ruona said he is going to try and have them come back at least one more time this year.

“Probably not this semester just because I know they will be heading down to Texas to record their own album, but I’m thinking next semester they will be back at the Delt house again,” he said. “Now that they have an agent, it is not in their hands of when they can go where exactly, but we are hoping they will be able to fit Baker into their schedule.”