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Two
award winners join forces before Nashville date
Lead guitar player, Luke Thomas
from Dolly, The Show and British Country Music award winners of
Best Event, Solid Gold Country Legends will be joining BCMA
winner Tim McKay as they open for the theatre shows in
preparation for a tour of Nashville in June.
The Solid Gold Country Legends show was voted Event of the Year
and Tim McKay held on to the coveted Entertainer of the Year at
the recent British Country Music Awards (September 2009).
Tim was chosen by theatre production company, Country Legends to
perform at many of their shows as they tour major theatres
across the country. The first show will be at the Waterfront
Hall in Belfast on 7th February where he will open the show with
the Country Legends band before Dolly, The Show begins.
Tim has already teamed up with Luke to rehearse prior to meeting
the full band and anticipation is growing for when they perform
together on the stage in Nashville in June 2010.
Jeanne Jordan and BJ Thomas will be choreographing the new show
and together Luke and Tim will be performing songs that have
been chosen from Garth Brooks Publishing company in
Nashville.
The Country Music Association of America (CMA) Artist Selection
Committee has chosen Tim and Luke to perform on the Global Stage
during CMA Music Festival in June 2010.
The CMA Music Festival is the Country Music Association's
biggest party. It is steeped in more than three decades of Fan
Fair tradition. Since Fan Fair was born in 1972, country music
fans have poured into Nashville, Tennessee, travelling from
around the globe to see their favourite artists perform, to get
that coveted autograph and to create lifelong memories.
Each year, hundreds of artists and celebrities appear at the CMA
Music Festival, from rising stars, to current favourites and the
legends. It is a veritable stomping ground for both those who
love making music and those who love hearing it.
BJ Thomas says ‘Both Tim and Luke are excited by the new theatre
project and will be pulling out all the stops to make it a
success’.
At only 21 years old, Luke, the hugely talented son of Country
stars, Jeanne Jordan and BJ Thomas, has been playing the guitar
since he was just 11 years old. He is now lead guitar on both,
Solid Gold Country Legends and Dolly, The Show.
Last year Luke signed an endorsement deal with leading guitar
suppliers, John Hornby Skewes to play their Vintage Key Player
range.
Luke comments ‘It’s very flattering to have been approached by
Vintage Key Player to endorse their products. This deal is great
for me as other people on their endorsement list include the
famous US duo, Van Zant, as far as we know I am the only other
Country player on their artist roster’.
When Tim McKay was just 17 years of age he was already being
hailed as one of the brightest young stars on the British
Country music scene, now at just 20, he is probably one of the
busiest country music artistes in the UK.
Tim has won the Entertainer of the Year Award at the British
CMA’s for two years running. In between he's already had several
of his dreams come true, including visiting Nashville to talk
with industry big-wigs, and still maintains a very busy tour
schedule.
There are no plans for Tim and Luke to perform in the UK as a
duo. They may be seen together around the clubs honing their
skills ready for Nashville and Country music’s biggest party,
but if you want to come along and see the boys they will be
opening for the shows on the following dates:
7th & 8th Feb - Belfast Waterfront Hall,
Dolly, The Show
24th March - Swansea Grand Theatre, Solid Gold
Country Legends
31st March - Albert Halls, Stirling, Solid Gold
Country Legends
1st April - Glasgow Pavilion Theatre, Solid Gold
Country Legends
3rd April – Corran Halls, Oban, Solid Gold Country
Legends
16th & 17th May - Belfast Waterfront Hall,
Solid Gold Country Legends
18th May - Dublin Helix Theatre, Solid Gold Country
Legends
5th July - York Opera House, Dolly, The Show
6th July - Runcorn Brindley Theatre, Dolly, The Show
11th July - Southport Theatre, Dolly, The Show
12th July - Exmouth Pavilion Theatre, Dolly, The Show
13th July - Grove Theatre, Dunstable, Dolly, The Show
16th July - Skegness Embassy Centre, Dolly, The Show
26th July - Swansea Grand Theatre, Dolly, The Show
27th July - Cheltenham Town Hall, Dolly, The Show
28th July - Fareham Fernham Hall, Dolly, The Show
29th July - Epsom Playhouse Theatre
15th August - Southport Theatre, Solid Gold Country
Legends
20th August - Scarborough Futurist Theatre, Dolly,
The Show
8th September - Middlesbrough Theatre, Dolly, The
Show
14th October - Fareham Ferneham Hall, Solid Gold
Country Legends
24th October - Bedworth Civic Theatre, Solid Gold
Country Legends
