2024 Wallace County music Series
The 2024 Wallace County Music Series promises a great season of outstanding live music and homegrown fun in Wallace County, Kansas!
Explore some stars and local favorites as they perform in intimate venues across the county.
Visitors are invited to dine at local restaurant venues before/after the shows. Stick around to browse local shops, and explore the many attractions of Wallace County!
2024 SUMMER/FALL SERIES
FREE | ALL AGES
LOGAN MIZE
THURSDAY JULY 25TH
SHARON SPRINGS • 7PM MT
Kansas native, Logan Mize was born and raised in the small farm town of Clearwater, Kansas.
After going on to play college football at Southern Illinois University, Logan picked up the guitar and started writing songs in his spare time. This led him to Nashville.
Ten years ago, when Logan Mize was busy being a Music Row staff songwriter, he'd occasionally feel homesick for Kansas.
So he moved home. “I think that moving back to Kansas gave me perspective. Once I got out here, and I'm actually immersed in this lifestyle, I found it much easier to be myself, to be the heartland rock dude who's singing these songs, rather than a Music Row writer. I think I was always worried that it seemed fake what I was doing. I farm up here. You listen to it, and I'm living that lifestyle. I think that's an easier sell for people, and it's easier for me to sell it because it's real.”
Forrest Mccurren
THURSDAY JULY 25TH
SHARON SPRINGS • 6PM MT
Forrest McCurren comes from the heart of the heartland, where the foothills of the Ozarks meet the Big Muddy: The Middle-of-Missouri.
Blazing his own trail while stylistically tipping his hat to the songwriting giants of the past, McCurren wields the magic of lyricism to cast a light on the many intricacies of everyday life set against vignettes of Middle America. Tackling topics such as: wise words from waitresses, heartbroken high school football standouts, and tattooed trailer
park lovers, McCurren writes songs for good people that got bad grades in
school, are drunk on dreams, and still trying to figure out if life is sour or sweet.
GONE WITH THE WEST
SATURDAY SEPT 7TH
WALLACE • 7PM MT
Western music’s new supergroup, Nashville-based GONE WITH THE WEST delivers high onstage energy, honey-smooth harmonies and seasoned musicianship, with an entertaining mix of traditional and original Western music.
This powerhouse all-female band includes multiple IWMA/AWA/Wrangler-winning vocalist and songwriter Mary Kaye Holt; vocalist/keyboardist Micki Fuhrman, winner of a WWA Spur Award (Best Western Song) and the 2023 Wrangler (Best Traditional Western album); Spanish-born singer/songwriter/guitarist Tecia McKenna, winner of the 2023 IWMA Songwriting Competition and Coloradoan Merna Lewis, aka “The Barefoot Fiddler,” a fourth-generation female fiddle player and 2023 IWMA Musician of the Year Nominee.
LUCAS MADDY
FRIDAY SEPT 27TH
WESKAN • 7PM MT
Lucas began his career as a poet in a tractor, working the fields on a western Kansas farm. His first efforts were written in marker on the inside of the tractor windows as he spent hour after hour making dust in God’s country. Picking up his first guitar at age 21, he nonetheless turned a late start into fast success, his first band show as an opener for legendary Oklahoma songwriter Mike McClure. Lucas was part of the red-dirt revival in Manhattan’s Aggieville, helping to re-start the open mic night at Longhorn’s, a venue that would eventually spawn Kansas bands Reckless Rebellion, Jared Daniels Band, and Lucas Maddy Band. Lucas credits longtime Kansas favorite Aaron Traffas for bringing him into the music scene and teaching him the ropes.
2024 SPONSORS
Western Kansas Ag Inc.
