Asleep at the Wheel to Appear at the Auditorium

The Grammy Award-winning Austin, Texas-based country music band Asleep at the Wheel is set

to take the stage on Saturday, February 17 at the historic Eureka Springs Auditorium at 36 S. Main

Street. Show time is 7:30 p.m. with an opening act to be announced at a later date. Tickets range from

$20 to $40 and are available to purchase at www.theaud.org .

Ray Benson founded Asleep at the Wheel in Paw Paw, West Virginia 48 years ago. Now based in

Austin, the band holds 10 Grammy awards, 20 studio albums and 20 singles on the Billboard country charts. the Grammy Award-winning “Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob WILLS and His Texas

Playboys” is the band’s most recent release (2015) and marks their third full-length Bob WILLS tribute album. Featuring 22 acclaimed collaborations, the all-star lineup includes legends such as Willie Nelson,

Merle Haggard and George Strait and newcomers like the Avett Brothers, Amos Lee, Old Crow Medicine

Show and many other fine talents.

Asleep at the Wheel is bringing a fresh look, sound and new album in 2018. With recent additions Katie Shore (fiddle, vocals), Dennis Ludiker (fiddle, mandolin) Connor Forsyth (keyboard, vocals) and Josh Hoag (Bass) Asleep at the Wheel’s newest members have given a newfound energy and their own unique style within the band. Asleep at the Wheel veterans David Sanger (Drums), Eddie

Rivers (Steel Guitar), and Jay Reynolds (Saxophone and Clarinet) round out the now 8 piece band.

Between those Texas Twin Fiddles and Boogie Piano, you can bet you’ll be dancin’ down the aisles and swingin’ all night long when the Wheel rolls into town!

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