Fiercely rooted in the classics, the girl who left her Kentucky home and high school at 16 to take a job at Dollywood has grown into a woman who embraces the genre’s forward progression. GRAMMY® Award winning singer/songwriter Carly Pearce has come a long way from the pain she felt writing her third studio project 29. Now filled only with happy tears, she looks ahead, chronicling her critically-acclaimed and commercially-lauded album with a new version 29: WRITTEN IN STONE (LIVE FROM MUSIC CITY), out March 24 via Big Machine Records. Produced by Pearce alongside David Clauss, the album was recorded during an intimate concert event at Marathon Music Works in Nashville, featuring special guests Lee Brice, The Isaacs, Matthew West, Jenee Fleenor and Ashley McBryde. Pearce continues to resonate with her honest lyrics and timeless musicality while closing her 29 story with current GOLD-certified Top-10-and-soaring hit “What He Didn’t Do,” which has amassed over 200 million streams to date. Lighting a fire with her debut album EVERY LITTLE THING and the PLATINUM-certified history making title track, Carly’s 2X PLATINUM-certified “I Hope You’re Happy Now” with Lee Brice won both the 2020 CMA Awards Musical Event and 2021 ACM Awards Music Event, plus ACM Single of the Year. She picked up her second consecutive ACM Music Event of the Year in 2022 with McBryde duet “Never Wanted To Be That Girl,” Carly’s third No. 1 and the third duet between two solo women to top Country Airplay, dating to the Billboard chart’s January 1990 inception. The song also took home 2022 CMA Musical Event of the Year and won a GRAMMY® Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance, marking Pearce’s first and making history as the first female pairing to win in the category. The Grand Ole Opry and Kentucky Music Hall of Fame member joins Blake Shelton’s BACK TO THE HONKY TONK TOUR throughout the spring. Honored as one of CMT’s 2022 Artists of The Year, the 2021 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year and reigning ACM Awards Female Artist of the Year is clearly living out her childhood dream.
Jon Pardi with Carly Pearce at Cheyenne Frontier Days
July 28 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
JON PARDI WITH CARLY PEARCE
- July 28 at 8 p.m.
JON PARDI
Mr. Saturday night marks the fourth album from the multi-platinum-certified hardcore, west coast/lone star country phenomenon Jon Pardi. With a pair of #1 country album debuts – the country music association and academy of country music album of the year nominated heartache medication and his sophomore California sunrise, containing the CMA song and single of the year nominated “Dirt on my Boots” – Pardi has refined and defined a country sound that’s long on punch, power and the kind of honkytonk that gets people drinking, dancing and drowning their heartaches.
Those heartaches drive Mr. Saturday night, a deep dive into good-timing to get over a break-up, bust up or any other bit of rancid luck. Pardi embraces western swing, breezy California midtempos, bar-room shuffles, an erotic slow burn – or two, Bakersfield hell-raisers and a couple ballads to show a more mature side of the guy who’s been championing all the styles of juke joint music since earning ACM new male vocalist of the year (2016) and CMA best new artist (2017) titles. Pardi has distilled his essence for an album including songs named “Neon Light Speed,” “Your Heart Or Mine,” “Last Night Lonely,” “Fill ’Er Up,” “Santa Cruz,” “Reverse Cowgirl” and “Longneck Way To Go” with Midland.
Three years in the making, Pardi’s focus remains conveying the strongest emotions, while pushing the boundaries of what good time songs can do and staying true to the man acclaimed by the Los Angeles times, The New York Times, Cowboys & Indians, NPR, Variety And Rolling Stone’s sense of what country is. Enlisting two-time CMA instrumentalist of the year fiddler Jenee Fleenor and multiple CMA, ACM and Grammy-Winning Guitarist Brent Mason who defined ’90s electric guitar, there’s plenty of fiddle, steel, and slide guitar. As importantly, he makes what hurts so bad so much fun – and in a world gone mad, that’s a pretty good card to have up your sleeve.
CARLY PEARCE
July 28, 2023
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Cheyenne Frontier Days
1210 W. 8th Ave
Cheyenne, 82001
https://www.cfdrodeo.com/