Western Quartet Riders In The Sky Comes to Cartersville

Get ready for a night of Western fun!

This year’s Cowboy Festival and Symposium Saturday night concert will be a night of fun for the entire family! Riders In The Sky, a classic cowboy quartet, have performed more than 5,000 concerts around the world, provided music for Toy Story 2 and Monsters Inc., and are members of the Grand Ole Opry. The group has been performing for more than 30 years and continues to travel the nation, performing for audiences of all ages.

In their first 25 years, they have performed in over 5200 live performances, almost 300 national television appearances, over 200 public radio shows, 700 Grand Ole Opry appearances, three television series (including a 1991-92 CBS Saturday morning show), an appearance on a Duck Dodgers cartoon on the Cartoon Network and more than 30 albums.

In 1982, Riders In The Sky became the first, and to date only, exclusively Western music artist to join the Grand Ole Opry, the longest running radio show in history. In 1988, they recorded comedy skits for the album "Riders Radio Theatre" and launched the long-running international weekly radio show of the same name on public radio. In 2006, "Ranger Doug's Classic Cowboy Corral" debuted on XM Satellite Radio, heard weekly on Channel 10.

The group includes: Ranger Doug ("The Idol of American Youth"), Woody Paul ("King of the Cowboy Fiddlers"), Too Slim ("a Righteous Tater"/"The Man of a Thousand Hats"), and Joey ("the Cowpolka King").

Riders in the Sky will be performing at The Grand Theatre in historic, downtown Cartersville at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Tickets for the 2:00 p.m. matinee show are $5 for children (16 years and younger), $25 for adults and $20 for Booth Museum members.

Tickets for the 7:00 p.m. show are $20 for children (16 years and younger), $25 for adults and $20 for Booth members.

Previous concerts have sold out well before event date, so to guarantee your seat, we recommend you purchase your tickets prior to the event.

Concert tickets are available by calling Booth Museum at 770-387-1300 or stop by the Museum Circle Desk.