{"id":7804,"date":"2017-03-14T15:45:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umgnashville.com\/george-strait-to-make-music-history-with-next-chapter-beginning-april-7\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:13:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:13:53","slug":"george-strait-to-make-music-history-with-next-chapter-beginning-april-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umgnashville.com\/george-strait-to-make-music-history-with-next-chapter-beginning-april-7\/","title":{"rendered":"GEORGE STRAIT TO MAKE MUSIC HISTORY WITH NEXT CHAPTER, BEGINNING APRIL 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"td1\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>GEORGE STRAIT TO MAKE MUSIC HISTORY WITH NEXT CHAPTER,<\/b><br \/>\n<b>BEGINNING\u00a0APRIL 7<\/b><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>30 No. 1\u2019s\u00a0Friday, April 7 and 30 No. 1\u2019s\u00a0Saturday, April 8\u00a0+ fan-favorite hits including \u201cAmarillo By Morning\u201d and \u201cTroubadour\u201d for one weekend only at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With a North American record-setting final tour stop sell-out at AT&amp;T Stadium on his\u00a0<i>The Cowboy Rides Away Tour,<\/i>\u00a0104,793 fans helped multiple ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year\u00a0<b>George Strait<\/b>\u00a0bring one chapter of his inimitable touring career to a close, but the book is far from over for the iconic artist who continues to rank among country music&#8217;s most-streamed artists, logging more than four billion audio streams and counting as of this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Strait revealed he would perform a series of exclusive worldwide engagements at T-Mobile\u00a0Arena in Las Vegas that commenced last April\u00a0and continue through 2017, including his most recent sold-out dates with\u00a0Kacey\u00a0Musgraves.\u00a0The\u00a0two\u00a0Texans closed the <i>Strait To Vegas<\/i> shows by\u00a0playing\u00a0for\u00a0a capacity crowd of\u00a0more than 33,000 people between Feb. 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>During the closing weekend,\u00a0Musgraves\u00a0sat down with Strait to ask him fan-submitted questions via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__ebmediapr.us10.list-2Dmanage.com_track_click-3Fu-3D8c2b6ee37a9e18082133cda47-26id-3D1d7b000b79-26e-3Db6c9a71c3f&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=o_lJda16WK5Kq4wBheKNrA&amp;r=znqAOY3VC15pXTW2CN7Wx1RwIb8IBjJ0YKj0oDrureQ&amp;m=830Py87UKqGaZE1iaYQH1nSyrz_4dMtIwEvHeYqoREI&amp;s=DscrKxMcwo5xxJEh6QSy7c7KG716g3NofSb2eCKOPXw&amp;e=\"><span class=\"s2\">Facebook Live<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0where he shared things like his bucket list item of fishing in Cuba and his first memory of playing in Las Vegas. But the primary question on every fan\u2019s mind was: \u201cWhat is the future of his live concerts?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strait answered their question: the reputable country star revealed that his exclusive performances in Las Vegas\u00a0will\u00a0continue &#8212; with a twist.\u00a0Strait has announced that he will shake things up\u00a0with\u00a0an unprecedented two nights of No. 1\u2019s\u00a0beginning with his\u00a0April 7-8 shows. With an unmatched 60 singles hitting the top of the charts during the span of his career and more than 283,000 fans streaming Strait&#8217;s &#8220;60 #1 Hits&#8221; playlist on Spotify <i>every month<\/i>, the King of Country wanted to share these radio hits plus several fan-favorites such as \u201cAmarillo By Morning\u201d and \u201cTroubadour\u201d that, surprisingly to many, never reached No. 1. During Strait\u2019s upcoming <i>2 Nights of Number 1\u2019s<\/i>, he will play 30 No. 1 hits Friday, April 7 and 30 No. 1 hits Saturday, April 8, in addition to those \u201ccan\u2019t miss\u201d classics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think some fans would throw something at me if I didn\u2019t play those,\u201d Strait noted with his signature grin. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to try this out in April and change it up for those shows, then see how it goes. It&#8217;s important to me to hear what the fans think and take it from there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Strait elaborated,&#8221;We&#8217;re going to be rehearsing, I would say 25 songs that we haven&#8217;t played in years, so this should be fun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of hits, his <i>Strait Out of the Box: Part 2<\/i> is available now. The impressive three-disc, 56-track collection features 36 hit singles &#8211; including 26 No. 1\u2019s &#8211; plus two new songs co-written by Strait, along with 18 choice album cuts. <i>Strait Out of the Box: Part 2<\/i> spans 20 years of Strait\u2019s career from 1996 to 2016 and follows the highly successful, 8x Platinum-selling 1995 release,<i> Strait Out of the Box<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ticketing information is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__ebmediapr.us10.list-2Dmanage.com_track_click-3Fu-3D8c2b6ee37a9e18082133cda47-26id-3Db2dc288537-26e-3Db6c9a71c3f&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=o_lJda16WK5Kq4wBheKNrA&amp;r=znqAOY3VC15pXTW2CN7Wx1RwIb8IBjJ0YKj0oDrureQ&amp;m=830Py87UKqGaZE1iaYQH1nSyrz_4dMtIwEvHeYqoREI&amp;s=04-r363bH_P_qTnwr4Rs_9pIxqqfrt8XuaE1S-5kPCI&amp;e=\"><span class=\"s2\">StraitToVegas.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGE STRAIT TO MAKE MUSIC HISTORY WITH NEXT CHAPTER, BEGINNING\u00a0APRIL 7 30 No. 1\u2019s\u00a0Friday, April 7 and 30 No. 1\u2019s\u00a0Saturday, April 8\u00a0+ fan-favorite hits including \u201cAmarillo By Morning\u201d and \u201cTroubadour\u201d for one weekend only at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas With a North American record-setting final tour stop sell-out at AT&amp;T Stadium on his\u00a0The Cowboy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - 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