On Monday, July 14, The Oak Ridge Boys will bring their legendary brand of rollicking country-rock to Door Community Auditorium (DCA). The Oaks’ impossibly tight four-part harmonies have spawned dozens of country and pop hits, earned them Grammy, Dove, CMA, and ACM awards, and garnered a host of other industry and fan accolades. In their captivating live performances, The Oak Ridge Boys present catchy new material as well as drawing from their fifty-year repertoire of hand-clapping hits and charted singles, including Elvira, Dream On, Bobby Sue, Fancy Free, and American Made.
The Louisville Courier-Journal calls The Oak Ridge Boys “part of the fabric of Americana…a marvel: utterly relaxed, supremely confident, vocally superb, and so supremely energetic.”
It is the trademark high energy of their stage shows that has allowed The Oak Ridge Boys—Joe Bonsall, Duane Allen, Richard Sterban, and William Lee Golden—to maintain their successful career for more than half a century. The Oaks are famous for keeping their much-fabled live performances fresh, infusing them with new material in addition to megahits like Elvira.
“We’re not willing to rest on our laurels,” says William Lee Golden. “That gets boring. As a group, we do things constantly to challenge ourselves, to try to do something different or better than the last time we did it.” Indeed, Billboard calls The Oak Ridge Boys “as crisp and sharp as ever.”
The Oak Ridge Boys were founded as The Oak Ridge Quartet in Knoxville, Tennessee during World War II. They began making regular appearances at the Grand Ole Opry in 1945, launching a career that has remained diverse and vibrant ever since. They changed their name to The Oak Ridge Boys in the 1960s and have maintained the same four-man roster since 1973. This year, The Oaks celebrated a new milestone—41 million records sold—by signing a record deal with Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records. They recently teamed with Cleopatra to release Boys Night Out, their first-ever live record of country hits.
The Oak Ridge Boys concert is underwritten by A Friend of the Auditorium and sponsored by Don and Carol Kress, Baylake Bank, and The Cordon Family Foundation.
The Oak Ridge Boys will perform at DCA at 8 p.m. on Monday, July 14. Tickets for the concert range from $48 to $75. Advance reservations are recommended and can be made through the DCA box office, located at 3926 Highway 42 in Fish Creek. The box office is open Monday-Friday, 12-5 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in person, on the phone at (920) 868-2728, or online at www.dcauditorium.org.
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