TWO COUNTRY LEGENDS, ONE NIGHT!
THE DALLAS SYMPHONY PRESENTS LEGENDARY COUNTRY ARTISTS RAY PRICE & ROY CLARK
JULY 2, 2010 AT THE MEYERSON SYMPHONY CENTER
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra proudly presents Country Legends with Ray Price and Roy Clark this summer: July 2, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. These two country music icons, both inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, will perform live onstage for a night of all-American country sounds. Tickets for this once-in-a-lifetime concert event go on sale Friday, April 2, 2010. This concert is without orchestra.
Virginia-born, award-winning virtuoso, actor and vocalist Roy Clark has headlined some of the world's most prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, Grand Palace in Brussels and the Rossiya Theatre in Moscow. Clark is best-known for having hosted the incomparable Hee Haw for over two decades, was a favorite recurring actor on the classic television show The Beverly Hillbillies and was the first country music artist to guest host Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. He became a Grand Ole Opry member in 1987, and has won numerous awards including Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music (twice) and Country Music Association, Comedy Act of the Year by the Academy of Country Music, a Grammy Award for Alabama Jubilee. The iconic Roy Clark will perform hits such as Yesterday, When I was Young, Come Live with Me and Thank God and Greyhound at this lively concert.
Native-Texan Ray Price was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996, and is best known for songs such as his rendition of Danny Boy, The Same Old Me, Release Me, Heartaches by the Number and countless others. He has won two Grammy Awards, including one for a collaboration with Willie Nelson, and twice won the coveted Album of the Year from both the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association. Born in Perryville, Texas, Price moved to Nashville to pursue music in the early 1950s, living for a short time with the legendary Hank Williams. In 1953, Price formed his band, the Cherokee Cowboys, whose members included Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Darrell McCall, Johnny Paycheck and Johnny Bush. He developed the famous "Ray Price Shuffle," a 4/4 arrangement of honky tonk with a walking bassline, which can be heard on many of his recordings from the late 1950s. His latest album, Last of the Breed, with fellow country legends Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, was released in 2007 and featured 20 country classics as well as a pair of new compositions.
