George Strait News

CHEYENNE — Attendance at this year’s Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo performances and evening shows totaled nearly 192,000, the best since 1999, event officials said.

Country superstar Alan Jackson is not only the biggest artist to play at Ironstone Vineyards this season, he’s the biggest in the past five years.

Imagine being referred to as a nickname you neither earned nor wanted. For too many years, singer Darius Rucker was called “Hootie,” since he was obviously the leader of Hootie and the Blowfish. You know, like that guy Jethro Tull or the Florida fellow Lynyrd Skynyrd.

A group whose current hit is “Country Folks Living Loud” will turn up the volume for big-name country entertainment at the Cowlitz County Fair next week. The Lost Trailers, who have had several national country hits, will be the first major country act at the fair in five years.

July 30, 2009 — The FCC still levies hefty fines on broadcasters who drop the F-bomb on the public airwaves, but one word that was formerly considered off limits has been assimilated into acceptability, thanks in part to George Strait, Toby Keith and now the Zac Brown Band.

TORONTO, July 30 (UPI) — Reba McEntire has joined the star-studded line-up of performers for the 2009 CCMA Awards, the Canadian Country Music Association said.

Evan Agostini/AP Julianne Hough may have traded her sparkling Dancing With the Stars costumes and glitzy Hollywood lifestyle for a grueling tour schedule with George Strait — but that doesn’t mean the country star is letting life on the road stop her from looking as gorgeous as ever. As part of her summer campaign [...]

Strait need only don his signature Wranglers, cowboy boots and black Stetson, smile at and engage with the audience, and sing from his heart to be a sensational performer.

Review: George Strait was at the Post-Gazette Pavilion last night, and really that was all that mattered.

ARTIST: GEORGE STRAIT