Holiday acts coming to music center this month

The Brown County Music Center will welcome a variety of holiday shows to the stage through December.

This weekend the The Gatlin Brothers will take the stage for Country &Christmas on Saturday, Dec. 3.

The Gatlin Brothers are Larry, Steve and Rudy, and are Grammy Award winners who have entertained audiences for more than 65 years. They have accrued a lifetime of achievements in their storybook career, including a Grammy for Best Country Song (“Broken Lady”), three ACM awards for Single of the Year (“All The Gold In California”), Album of the Year (Straight Ahead) and Male Vocalist of the Year, along with five nominations for CMA Vocal Group of the Year, Single, Album.

The Brothers have accumulated eight No. 1 Singles, 30 Top 40 Records, 24 Studio Albums and five BMI “Million-Air” Awards. As a solo writer, Larry ranks 4th on Billboard’s top 40 self-penned hits and was recently inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

His song catalog has been recorded by the “Who’s Who” of entertainers, a list including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell, Kris Kristofferson, Sir Tom Jones, Dottie West, Charlie Rich, Johnny Mathis, the Oaks Ridge Boys and many others.

They have performed at the White House, the President Reagan Library, Air Force One, Ford’s Theater, Camp David, President Bush’s 80th Birthday Party, The Lincoln Theater, and Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Gardens, West Point, The Mall in Washington D.C., The Greek Theater, Billy Bob’s, Radio City Music Hall, Disney World and The Wembley Music Festival, to name a few.

They have graced the stage with entertainers like Bob Hope, George Burns, Kenny Rogers, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Vince Gill, the Mandrels, The Oak Ridge Boys, the Gaither Vocal Band, the Isaacs and more.

Four days after the Gatlin Brothers take the music center stage, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will entertain audiences in Brown County with their “Wild and Swingin’ Holiday Party.”

For 28 years, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s unique take on American swing and jazz music has thrilled audiences around the world, while their unique and spirited “Wild and Swingin’ Holiday Party” has become an eagerly anticipated annual family event. Singer and band leader Scotty Morris said it’s the one to enjoy with family.

Drawing on a catalogue of holiday classics and Christmas originals from the band’s two full-length holiday albums, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy brings its live show with unique arrangements of classic holiday songs in Big Bad Voodoo Daddy style, including Jingle Bells, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, and Winter Wonderland.

Multi-platinum entertainer Sara Evans will bring her Go Tell It On the Mountain Tour to the music center with a performance on Sunday, Dec. 11.

As the fifth most-played female artist at country radio in nearly the last two decades — her five No. 1 singles include “No Place That Far,” “Suds In The Bucket, “A Real Fine Place To Start,” “Born to Fly,” and “A Little Bit Stronger,” which spent two weeks in the top spot and was certified platinum by the R.I.A.A. Sara’s “stunning, country voice,” according to Rolling Stone.

She has earned accolades as Academy of Country Music Top Female vocalist as well as numerous American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Country Music Association, CMT and Grammy Awards nominations. In addition, the CMA awarded Video of the Year honors for her hit chart-topping single, “Born to Fly” from her double-platinum album of the same name.

Evans released her memoir, “Born To Fly,” on Sept. 8, 2020 through Howard Books, an imprint of Simon &Schuster. Named after her landmark double-platinum album, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, Born To Fly finds Evans opening up and sharing stories not only about her career and what it is like living in the spotlight, but about what inspires her and how her faith keeps her strong.

On Friday, Dec. 16 audiences are welcome to the WTTS Holiday Can Concert featuring The Wallflowers.

Concertgoers are encouraged to bring a can of food that WTTS will collect to donate to a local food bank.

For the past 30 years, the Jakob Dylan-led act has stood as a dynamic and purposeful rock band, according to a press release from the music center.

Their signature style has been present through the decades, baked into the grooves of smash hits like 1996’s Bringing Down the Horse as well as more recent and exploratory fare like 2012’s Glad All Over.

In recent years, Dylan – the Wallflowers’ founding singer, songwriter and guitarist – has stepped outside of his band, first with a pair of more acoustic and rootsy records, 2008’s Seeing Things and 2010’s Women and Country, and then with the 2018 film Echo in the Canyon and the accompanying soundtrack, which saw him collaborate with artists like Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Beck and Fiona Apple.

After nine years since performing with the group he had first joined, Dylan will return with the Wallflowers on the music center stage.

New work from the Wallflowers is Exit Wounds, a collection marking the first new Wallflowers material since Glad All Over.

All tickets are available at www.browncountymusiccenter.com, www.ticketmaster.com, and at the venue box office (open Wednesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. via outdoor ticketing windows and phone sales at 812-988-5323. The box office is now cashless, and accepts debit and credit cards including Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express.