Little Big Town coming to South Okanagan

PENTICTON – Grammy award winning Little Big Town will hit the stage at the South Okanagan Events Centre in Penticton this winter.

The quartet is extending their U.S. Breakers Tour into Canada, starting in February of 2019. Little Big Town will be making a stop in Penticton on Friday, March 1, 2019 as part of a 10 city Canadian extension.

The show opens with special guests Midland and Ashley McBryde.

Little Big Town has earned more than 40 award show nominations and have come away with nearly 20 awards, including multiple Grammys, American Music Association, People’s Choice, Country Music Association, American Country Music and an Emmy, according to a media release.

They are the current CMA and ACM vocal group of the year, are Country Music Hall of Fame inductees and have their own star on the Nashville Walk of Fame.

The group has two decades worth of experience in the music industry with such hits as “Boondocks,” “Good as Gone,” “Tornado,” and “Day Drinking.”

Little Big Town’s last studio album “The Breaker” debuted at number one on the Billboard Country Charts.

Midland is a grammy nominated and ACM award winning trio from Dripping Springs, Texas with the recently released single “Burn Out".

Ashley McBryde has opened for Eric Church, Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lambert and Luke Combs.

She has been described by The New York Times as “an alluringly flexible singer, fluent in classic country, blues and Southern rock, with a voice that moves from tender to tough.”

Tickets go on sale Friday, Oct. 12 at 10 a.m. at www.ValleyFirstTix.com. Ticket prices are: $49.75, 69.75 and $84.75.

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