Well, hello, fans of Ray Stevens!! Ray kicked off the month of October concerts at the CabaRay showroom last night. You will have 6 more concert dates this month to catch the legendary Country Music Hall of Fame member in action. This is also the month that Ray expands to additional Thursday night concerts. The Saturday evening concerts are: October 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. He'll be in concert twice on a Thursday evening.. the first Thursday concert is October 13th and the second Thursday concert is October 27th.
I'm sure you're all familiar by now with this publicity photo. It's Ray Stevens standing in the parking lot of the
CabaRay. This photo originated in the weeks leading up to it's grand opening in 2018. It's in it's third full season of concerts (2018, 2019, 2022) after having had to close it's doors in 2020 and most of the first half of 2021 due to Tennessee laws regarding the pandemic. This season of concerts will wrap up on New Year's Eve and as of this writing it looks as if the annual show will return. New Year's Eve, last year, the concert was canceled due to Ray's wife battling an illness that she passed away from just hours before 2022 arrived at Midnight. When you visit the
CabaRay website, located
HERE, you can jump ahead to the month of November...there's several more Thursday evening concerts on the schedule. If any of you live in the area that receives the PBS affiliate, KET2, one of the sub-channels of KET (Kentucky Educational Television), you may have noticed that
Ray Stevens CabaRay Nashville is no longer on their schedule. It had been airing every Saturday night on KET2 since the latter half of 2018 (if my memory serves me correctly) but a couple of weeks ago it was removed from the line-up. The last day KET2 aired the show was September 12th. It was the episode guest starring Lari White.
Ray's PBS series, roughly 20 weeks ago, began appearing on his YouTube channel. Each Friday evening an episode from the series makes it's debut on YouTube. These are full length episodes...they're not clips. This past Friday episode 6, season 2 was uploaded. That episode guest stars The Gatlin Brothers. I'll be writing a blog entry about that episode soon. Don't forget to click the link that I posted to check out the upcoming concerts at the Ray Stevens CabaRay showroom!
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