IMPORTANT:
If you currently have tickets for the THURSDAY performance, they are valid for This Show Only.
50 Years of Asleep at the Wheel! Founded in Paw Paw, West Virginia in 1970 by country legend Ray Benson, Asleep at the Wheel holds 10 Grammy awards, 20 studio albums, and 20 singles on the Country Billboard charts. Consistently, Benson has brought the best talents of Western Swing to the stage. Today he sings lead vocals and plays lead guitar alongside Katie Shore (fiddle, vocals), David Sanger (drums), Dennis Ludiker (fiddle, mandolin, vocals), Josh Hoag (bass), Connor Forsyth (piano, vocals), and Flavio Pasquetto (steel guitar). They began with a simple goal: to play and help revive American roots music--50 years later, they’re still going strong!
Brennen Leigh:
Brennen Leigh is an American songwriter, guitar player, mandolin player and singer whose to-the-point storytelling style has elevated her to cult icon status in Europe, Scandinavia, across the United States, South America and the United Kingdom. Her songs have been recorded by Lee Ann Womack, Rodney Crowell, Sunny Sweeney, Charley Crockett, and many others. As renowned for her musicianship as for her writing, it’s easy to see how Leigh caught the ear of greats like Guy Clark, who colorfully endorsed her flatpicking: “Brennen Leigh plays guitar like a motherfucker,” and David Olney, who described her writing as “tender, violent, sentimental, foolish and wise, she is always Brennen. Confident and at ease with herself, without being a jerk about it.”