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15-time GRAMMY winner, Country Music Hall of Fame and IBMA Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame member Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will be performing select dates this summer at Dierks Bentley’s Off The Map Tour 2026! You will not want to miss this! Get ready for Ricky Skaggs and his band, Kentucky Thunder, to play an amazing set of exceptional country and bluegrass music! Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 20th at 10:00 am.

PRE-SALE ACCESS–Sign up for pre-sale access on Thurs 2/19 from 10a-10p local time with this special code: GUITAR

Go to Dierks.com for more info and tickets!

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We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this last minute change causes.

The venue is working to find a new date and will announce it as soon as possible on their Website, Social Media pages, and through emails to the venue’s patrons.

Your current tickets will be honored for the rescheduled date.

Thank you for your understanding and support. Please stay safe and dry!

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Nashville, Tennessee (November 10, 2025) — Fifteen-time GRAMMY® winner and Country Music Hall of Fame member Ricky Skaggs will once again bring the spirit of the season to audiences nationwide with his 2025 holiday tour, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Christmas. Skaggs and his award-winning band Kentucky Thunder will perform eight special Christmas concerts this December.

Skaggs’ 2025 Christmas tour will visit Philadelphia, MS; Owensboro, KY; Steelville, MO; Nashville, TN; Birmingham, AL; Nashville, IN; Cincinnati, OH; and Bristol, VA.

The show will feature a mix of holiday favorites, new arrangements, and signature Kentucky Thunder instrumentals, performed with the tight harmonies and acoustic mastery that have defined Skaggs’ legendary career.

“I’d like to invite you all to our Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder Christmas Show this December,” says Skaggs. “You’ll hear some great old Christmas favorites, some newer Christmas songs and some great instrumentals too. Come on out and see this fun family show. I promise you’ll have a great time.”

Concertgoers can expect classics like “Christmas Time’s A Comin’,” “New Star Shining,” “Let It Snow,” and “Mary, Did You Know?,” alongside Kentucky Thunder’s instrumental showcases including “Deck the Halls,” “Ancient Christmas Tones,” and “Icy Vine Grove.” Each night includes sing-alongs such as “Joy to the World” and “Silver Bells.”

For ticketing information, visit rickyskaggs.com/tour.

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Christmas Tour Dates:
Dec. 4 – Philadelphia, MS – Marty Stuart’s Congress of Country Music / Ellis Theater
Dec. 5 – Owensboro, KY – Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum / Woodward Theatre
Dec. 6 – Steelville, MO – Meramec Music Theatre
Dec. 7 – Nashville, TN – The Fisher Center at Belmont University
Dec. 8 – Birmingham, AL – Lyric Theatre
Dec. 11 – Nashville, IN – Brown County Music Center
Dec. 12 – Cincinnati, OH – Memorial Hall OTR
Dec. 13 – Bristol, VA – Hard Rock Live Bristol

About Ricky Skaggs
Earning 12 #1 hit singles, 15 GRAMMY® Awards, 13 IBMA Awards, nine ACM Awards, eight CMA Awards (including Entertainer of the Year), two Dove Awards, the ASCAP Founders Award, three honorary Doctorate degrees, inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame, IBMA Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, National Fiddler Hall of Fame, Musicians Hall of Fame, and GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame, the 2013 Artist-In-Residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, an Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award in the Instrumentalist category along with countless other awards, Ricky Skaggs is truly a pioneer of Bluegrass and Country music. Since he began playing music over 60 years ago, Skaggs has released more than 30 albums and has performed thousands of live shows. He started his own record label, Skaggs Family Records, in 1997 and has since released 12 consecutive GRAMMY®-nominated albums. His latest release, Hearts Like Ours, with his wife, celebrated artist Sharon White of The Whites features the couple dueting on handpicked country love songs. And the Grand Ole Opry member has released his first-ever autobiography, “Kentucky Traveler.” The book details the life and times of Skaggs and provides a descriptive history of Country and Bluegrass music, as told by the master himself. In addition to his regular touring schedule with his band, Kentucky Thunder, he has added country tour dates as he plugs in and plays full shows of his chart-topping hits. Skaggs was a 2020 recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government.

For more information, visit rickyskaggs.com.

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It’s a great live album. The band was rehearsed and ready to play. Looking back, I think many of the songs were too fast, but at the time they felt just right. (Way too much strong coffee.)

‘Country Boy’ was ridiculously fast!

I rented two 3M 32 ​track digital tape machines and had them flown to London from the U​.S​. just for this live recording. When one machine would get close to the end of the reel, we would start the second machine so we didn’t lose any of the performances. I had used the 3M tape machines on some earlier records and liked how they sounded. We wanted the live record to sound as good as a studio recording.

I don’t know what happened to the red coat and the white shoes but I still have my purple electric guitar.​ It’s a Joe Glaser Telecaster. I still play it on my shows. Come out and see it sometime!​”

–Ricky​ Skaggs

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