Farm Aid draws sellout crowd to Noblesville’s Ruoff Home Music Center By: Kevin Vickery Farm Aid 2023 brought a crowd of over 24,000 concert goers to Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, IN on Saturday, September 23rd with performances by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, Margo Price, as well as […]

Greenfield’s Depot Street Park Hosts Revel For A Cause By: Kevin Vickery  On Friday, September 22nd, I had the opportunity to attend, “Revel For a Cause”, in Greenfield, IN at Depot Street Park, a relatively new park, located in downtown Greenfield. The weather was perfect for a great show at this gem of a local […]

Today I’m saddened to hear of the passing of local Blues Legend, Governor Davis. He was always so cool, entertaining and genuinely a nice guy. I first met him about 30 years ago when I worked at Music Today in downtown Anderson, IN. Whenever Gov would come in, it was always like a rockstar was […]

The first cassette tape I ever bought with my own money was the Van Halen album, “1984” and I was hooked. I covered the walls of my room with posters and pictures of Eddie and the band and got a second hand, JC Penney guitar for my 13th Birthday. My friends and I spent countless […]

I am saddened to learn that we lost another one of the great ones today. Singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, Hall of Famer, Opry Member, and Country Music Legend, Charlie Daniels has passed away at age 83. I’ll never forget this date as this legend who is famous for mega hits like, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” […]

I am saddened to hear of yesterday’s passing of singer/songwriter, Grand Ole Opry member and all around good guy, Joe Diffie and thought I would take a moment to share a memory of him here. In the Summer of 1996, as Field Marketing Manager for the Crown Royal County Music Series, I worked on tour […]

I must admit that when I initially heard that Paul McCartney’s tour was coming through Indiana, my first response was, “Yeah, that would be cool but I doubt I’ll go”. There’s plenty of reasons to skip it like the high ticket prices, the hundred mile drive to Fort Wayne, and besides all that, The Beatles […]

On May 7th, 1989, I walked into Pinebrook Recording Studio in Alexandria, IN with my first real band, Vice Versa. We had won some recording time by competing in a local Battle of the Bands contest and were all fired up about the opportunity to record our own songs in a professional recording studio for […]

At my old job at TBA Entertainment in Nashville, TN, the coolest thing I ever did was spend a year working with the legendary Merle Haggard on his, “For the Record” double album project. We re-released new versions of his 43 number one singles along with a corresponding live TV, concert special, from the Las […]