The Brown County Music Center continues to add well known names to its roster, including Trace Adkins and Elvis Costello.

Renowned country artist Trace Adkins will bring his Somewhere In America Tour to the music center on Thursday, June 29 with special guest Eric Van Houten.

In his 25-year career in Country music, Adkins has sold more than 11 million albums, charted more than 20 singles, earned numerous awards and GRAMMY nominations, and garnered more than two billion streams.

A Grand Ole Opry member for nearly two decades, the Louisiana native is known for dynamic baritone and fiery, always-memorable live performances, and has expanded his Country career to include film and TV acting.

He broke out in 1996 with the debut album, “DREAMIN’ OUT LOUD,” cracking the Top 5 of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with “Every Light In the House Is On” and following with the No. 1 smash, “This Ain’t (No Thinkin’ Thing).”

Since then, Adkins has pioneered a mix of classic Country-minded traditionalism and adventurous, good-natured showmanship, breaking open new avenues in modern Country through fun-filled hits like “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” and “Hillbilly Bone” (with Blake Shelton).

He celebrated the silver anniversary of his album debut in 2021 with “THE WAY I WANNA GO,” doing exactly what he always has – mixing pure-Country reverence with standout collaborations featuring Blake Shelton, Melissa Etheridge, Snoop Dogg, Stevie Wonder on harmonica and more.

Adkins’ newest video “Love Walks Through the Rain” (featuring Melissa Etheridge) is available everywhere now.

Elvis Costello & The Imposters, along with special guest Charlie Sexton announced their 23-date tour, “We’re All Going On A Summer Holiday,” making a stop at the music center Sunday, June 25.

Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets will open.

Since returning to the road in the summer of 2021, in the guise of “Elvis Costello & The Layabouts,” E.C. and The Imposters — Steve Nieve, Pete Thomas, Davey Faragher and augmented by Texas guitarist Charlie Sexton — have undertaken three tours in the United States and one in the U.K. and northern Europe. Most recently Costello played the highly-acclaimed “100 Songs and More,” a ten-night engagement at the Gramercy Theater, NYC at which he played more than 230 original songs, repeating only three titles.

The shows that began in solo performance went on to spring nightly surprises, involving everything from an ensemble including musical saw, fiddle and Uillean pipes to an eight-person Broadway vocal chorus led by M.D. Rob Mathes, duets with jazz bassist, Endea Owens and, from the halfway point, performing with Steve Nieve at the piano before adding two different horn sections, led by trumpet player and arranger, Michael Leonhart.

The stand included guest vocal appearances by Rebecca Lovell, La Marisol and JSWISS and concluded with a more than three hour finale performance with the full band line-up.

Since 2018, Costello has issued ten record releases; the most recent being, “The Songs of Bacharach & Costello,” a 4-CD, 2-LP box-set celebrating his nearly 30-year songwriting collaboration with Burt Bacharach. It was named Best New Reissue by Pitchfork.

The Grammy Award-winning Elvis Costello and The Imposters album “Look Now” of 2018 was followed by the companion E.P., “Purse” while a French language E.P., “La Face Du Pendule à Coucou” followed the album, “Hey Clockface” – recorded in Helsinki and Paris. Together with co-producer Sebastian Krys, Costello also completed work on “Spanish Model” — an adaptation of 1978’s album, “This Year’s Model” with new vocals recorded in lyrical adaptation and translation with a cast of Latin music performers.

In 2022, the latest Elvis Costello and The Imposters release, “The Boy Named If” was followed into the stores by “The Resurrection of Rust” — the recording debut after 50 years of Rusty — the duo of Liverpool-based singer-songwriters, D.P. MacManus and Allan Mayes, accompanied by The Imposters for new recordings of their 1972 repertoire including two Nick Lowe compositions from his days in the band Brinsley Schwarz.

Preparations for a return to the stage in 2021 (and again in the summer of 2022) led to the release of “The Boy Named If (Alive at Memphis Magnetic),’” which found the band running down live arrangements of their new songs along with the Jagger/Richards song, “Out Of Time” and Nick Lowe’s 1976 Dutch release, “Truth Drug.” The collection was completed by a brand new version of “Magnificent Hurt” by the Japanese duo, chelmico.

D.P. MacManus and Lowe first met in a public house, opposite The Cavern in Liverpool in 1972. Lowe went on to produce “Elvis Costello’s” largely ignored Stiff Records debut 45rpm, “Less Than Zero” and the subsequent failed singles releases, “Alison” and “Red Shoes” although the same songs received more attention upon the release of his debut album “My Aim Is True” in July ‘77 in the U.K. and in a Columbia Records release late in the same year.

Between late 1977 and 1980, Nick Lowe produced the Elvis Costello and the Attractions albums, “This Year’s Model,” “Armed Forces,” “Get Happy” and “Trust.”

In the Spring of 1979, Elvis Costello and the Attractions and Mink Deville were joined by Rockpile — featuring both Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds —and undertook a three-month package tour of the United States. At this time, Costello’s version of a song from the last Brinsley Schwarz album, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love & Understanding” saw its first release as the B-Side of the Radar Records single, “American Squirm,” credited to “Nick Lowe And His Sound” with the producer seen on the picture sleeve seated at the mixing board of Eden Studios in tinted horn-rims, cradling a Jazzmaster guitar with a newly inlaid fretboard reading, “Costello.” The track was subsequently added to the U.S. edition of Elvis Costello and the Attractions, third album “Armed Forces.”

In 1984, Costello took the producer’s chair for the first and only time at a Nick Lowe session for the Hi Records-informed single, “L.A.F.S.” which was also included on the F-Beat Records album, “Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit.”

In the same year, the duo recorded the Burt Bacharach/Mack David/Barney Williams song, “Baby It’s You” at Lowe’s Am-Pro Studios in Shepherd’s Bush, London, also the location for a Boxing Day (1979) recording session with Lowe’s then father-in-law, Johnny Cash which yielded the hit release, “Without Love” and the Cash/Costello duet, “We Ought To Be Ashamed.”

In 1986, Nick Lowe produced the Attractions’ last complete album, “Blood & Chocolate” at Olympic Studios, before returning for a bass-playing cameo on “Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over)” for the 1990 Warner Brothers album, “Mighty Like A Rose.”

In 1993 Nick Lowe (or Costello himself) played bass on nine of the songs on the album, “Brutal Youth,” which some mistook for a full Attractions reunion. They most recently performed together last summer on The Boy Named If & Other Favourites tour.

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Tickets and are available for purchase at browncountymusiccenter.com, 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. Any box office related inquiries beyond purchasing tickets for an upcoming show should be directed to [email protected].