Aug. 21 – Labor Day, Sept. 1, 2025
351 Days 1 Hours 40 Mins
Grandstand Stage
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Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Since first hitting the country landscape, Jon Pardi has separated himself from the pack, carving a lane that is all his own by producing, writing and singing songs he created. Having “cut a path through modern country’s embrace of pop, hip-hop and EDM” (The New York Times), this ACM and CMA award-winning artist is a “hero in the making” (Variety) with “an emboldened work ... that draws both vitality and assurance from his anything-but-sterile relationship to his tradition’s modern era” (NPR). With his “state-of-the-art blend of traditional instrumentation and progressive grooves that point to country’s future” (Rolling Stone), Pardi is “a leader among a growing number of artists bringing back fiddle, steel and twang” (People). His “long-lasting mark on the genre” (MusicRow) and his impressive ability show “the kind of country music multiple generations came to know, and love, can still work on a mass scale” (Variety). Filled with fiddle, twang and steel guitar, Pardi “applies new ideas to country’s old sounds” (Los Angeles Times) and “brings authenticity back into country music” (People).
2023 saw career milestones, including a surprise at California’s famed Stagecoach Festival, when country icon Alan Jackson invited Pardi to join Grand Ole Opry. At his history-making induction in October – presented by Opry member Garth Brooks – Pardi became the first artist from California ever inducted. Additionally, the multi-platinum singer, songwriter and producer released his first-ever Christmas record, “Merry Christmas From Jon Pardi.”
Pardi recently released “Cowboys and Plowboys” featuring Luke Bryan as the follow-up single to his sixth career No. 1, “Your Heart Or Mine,” off his ACM Album of the Year-nominated “Mr. Saturday Night,” which has proven Pardi “might be the most successful at combining the old-school sound with today’s need for hooks” (Nash News), earning praise for his ability to “blaze his own trail over the past decade” (Billboard). His critically acclaimed CMA and ACM Album of the Year-nominated project “Heartache Medication” debuted among the top albums on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and was named one of 2019’s Best Albums of the Year by Rolling Stone and the Los Angeles Times. Pardi’s breakthrough platinum-selling album “California Sunrise” featured the multi-platinum, chart-topping hits “Dirt On My Boots,” “Head Over Boots,” “Heartache On The Dance Floor” and “Night Shift.”
Chart-breaker and award-winner Dillon Carmichael is a rising country music artist from Burgin, Ky. Adding to his already emerging career, Carmichael’s new Jon Pardi-produced single, “Drinkin’ Problems,” is climbing the radio charts and was the most-added song for five consecutive weeks. It serves as an introduction to his deeply personal four-track project “Where I Grew Up,” which highlights his bluegrass roots and was produced by Riser House Entertainment. Rolling Stone dubbed Carmichael “country music’s most convincing young star since Stapleton.” The New York Times compared Carmichael to Randy Travis after his previous album, “Hell On An Angel,” and said his rich baritone voice “moves with the heft and certainty of a tractor-trailer,” while NPR praised his “deep holler,” and Parade raved that “Carmichael defines pure country.” In December 2023, the Country Radio Seminar named Carmichael one of its New Faces for 2024. He landed on Artist to Watch lists from Billboard, Rolling Stone, Taste of Country, Pandora and more; reached No. 2 on country radio’s Most Added chart with his debut radio single, “Dancing Away With My Heart”; electrified festival crowds from CMA Fest to Dierks Bentley’s Seven Peaks; and earned tour dates with Dwight Yoakam, Trace Adkins, The Cadillac Three and A Thousand Horses, among others. In 2024, Carmichael joins Jon Pardi, Cody Johnson and Luke Bryan on tour, in addition to his headline shows across the U.S. and Europe.
$44, $51 & $61 (All seats reserved)
$71 (GA Pit)
$88 (Party Deck)