Photos: A Thousand Horses will bring a touch of “Southernailty” to Wyoming’s Big Show® presented by Aspen Mountain Medical Center.
Wyoming’s Big Show® will have a touch of “Southernality” on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 with A Thousand Horses during the After Dark Concert Series presented by Aspen Mountain Medical Center. The Sweetwater Events Complex made the announcement of Friday in a press release.
If you drive across the rural South with the window down and the radio on. Hit scan and listen as muscular country, drawling rock, high gospel harmony, low-country blues and old school soul meld together into something special and distinct. That’s the sound of A Thousand Horses and the exciting new band’s debut, Southernality.
Southernality, a 13-track Dave Cobb-produced Republic Nashville album, yielded the No. 1 RIAA Gold-certified hit “Smoke” before it was released in June. And fans have responded to the unique, hypnotic song in a way that shows the band’s all-genre mix of classic influences remains in the DNA of young music fans in the digital age.
“Subconsciously, our audience grew up listening to those albums that we all love too and the reaction so far has just been exciting,” lead singer Michael Hobby said in the release. “To me country music’s always been cool. I grew up on it. There’s a wider audience now. The lane seems to be a little bit wider for artists like Eric Church and Jason Aldean to push boundaries. People call it Southern rock or people call it country or people call it rock ‘n’ roll. To me it just feels like it’s all just music now.”
Hobby is joined in the creative core of A Thousand Horses by guitarists Bill Satcher and Zach Brown and bassist Graham DeLoach. Together, their sound clicked immediately with fans and ATH has since made its television debut on NBC’s TODAY, Fox’s Fox & Friends and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! The group also earned a CMT Music Awards nomination for Group Video of the Year and performed on the show the same week it made first appearances at CMA Music Festival and Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.
Wyoming’s Big Show® – The Sweetwater County Fair is the largest annual event in Western Wyoming drawing over 75,000 visitors in 2015. It features the largest midway in the area, with top-ranked performing artists, traditional county fair exhibits, food and fun for the whole family. Additionally, it was named the NUMBER ONE summer event in Wyoming by Wyoming Lifestyle Magazine.
Attractions for the 2016 Fair include Lanky the Clown, Animal Cracker Specialties, Scales and Tails Reptiles and Birds, Fair Animal Specialties Petting Zoo and Pony Rides, Twinkle Time, Sword Swallower Dan Meyer, Hypnotist & Mentalist Michael Swenson, country artist Cale Moon, graffiti artist ARCY and so much more. Follow all of Wyoming’s Big Show® – The Sweetwater County Fair updates on Facebook or online at SweetwaterEvents.com.