Legendary Grammy Award Winning Country Music Group Diamond Rio Recently made a stop in Pigeon Forge Tennessee to play for a sold out show at the Country Tonight Theater . A Grand Start to the Celebrity concert series brought to you by Brian Orr of East Tennessee Concerts and The Country Tonight Theater. Fans Arrived early and you could feel the Excitement like electricity in the air. All ages attended the sold out show. Some had signs stating lyrics or how much they loved the band or how many times they had seen the band. They Took To the Stage to a thunderous applause . They Had a very Impressive light show and The Band Sounded Phenomenal! Marty Roe heading up the band on vocals still sounded Amazing. as well as long time band members Jimmy Olander , Dana Williams and Dan Truman. They Have added two new members to the band Carson Mckee on Fiddle/Mandoline and Micah Schweinsberg on drums. They Have so many wonderful songs They could do and only so much time so they did a medley of some songs and they of course played all your favorite Diamond Rio songs in entirety Including : Mirror Mirror, One More Day, Beautiful Mess, Meet In The Middle. But One Medley I wasn’t expecting to hear was a Rock n Roll Medley with a banjo playing along to songs like Aerosmith’s Walk This Way, Or Carry On Wayward Son by the band Kansas and the Ever popular Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf. They All sounded Amazing too! They ended the night by playing their song Bubba Hyde, and all throughout the night had videos playing on the screens.

About Diamond Rio: They are an American Country band from Nashville Tennessee. They were founded in 1982 and Originally called The Grizzley River Boys They changed the name to The Tennessee River Boys . They even played at Tennessee’s Opryland Theme Park and an Early member included Ty Herndon . Member changes came but Marty Roe, Dana Williams and Dan Truman and Jimmy Olander have been the longest members and most known. They have won four Group of the year (CMAs) and two top vocal group awards ( ACMs). A Grammy award . 14 Grammy Nominations. They were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry 1998. They Have Done a lot and a lot more than listed here. Its great to see them still going strong . Be sure to keep up with them at http://www.diamondrio.com for all the News and tour dates. Checkout some of the photos from their recent show at Country Tonight Theater In Pigeon Forge ! Angela Richardson-Newman Music Matters Magazine.