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REO Speedwagon
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Showtime: 8:00 pm
Tickets:$50.95 & $45.95
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REO Speedwagon is an American rock band that grew in popularity in the Midwestern United States during the 1970sand peaked in the early 1980s as one of America’s most popular arena rock bands at this time. REO Speedwagon hits include “Keep On Loving You” and “Can’t Fight This Feeling”. Both songs are power ballads, the former being prototypical of the genre and appearing on the group’s most commercially successful album, “Hi
Infidelity”, which also included the hit “Take It on the Run”, a song that peaked at number five on the U.S. charts.
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Mel Tillis
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Showtime: 3:00 pm
Tickets:$35.95 & $30.95
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Country music legend, Mel Tillis, started performing in the early ‘50’s with a group called The Westerners while serving as a baker in the United States Air Force, stationed in Okinawa. In 1956, Webb Pierce recorded a song written by Mel entitled “I’m Tired”, and it launched Mel’s musical career.
Awards: In 1976, Mel Tillis was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters International Hall of Fame, and that same year, he was named Country Music Association’s (CMA) Entertainer of the Year. Also, for six years in the 70’s, Mel Tillis won Comedian of the Year.
On September 21, 1999, Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) named Mel Tillis the Songwriter of the Decade for two decades.
Mel was the recipient of the Golden Voice Entertainer Award for 2001. He also won the 2001 Golden R.O.P.E. Songwriter Award
The Grand Ole Opry inducted Mel Tillis as its newest member on June 9, 2007.
In October of 2007, Mel Tillis became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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