8 DAYS A WEEK: Your look at Valley Arts
Country star at The Peak: Rodney Atkins, 8 p.m. Aug. 29, Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe. Doors open at 6 p.m. The concert is rescheduled from Aug. 27, 2020, for which tickets will be honored. Atkins, a Knoxville, Tenn., native, has had the country hits, “Honesty (Write Me a List),” No. 4 in 2003; “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)” and “Watching You,” each four weeks at No. 1 in 2006, and also the No. 1 singles, ”These Are My People” and “Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)”; “It’s America,” No. 1, and “Farmer’s Daughter,” in the Top 5, in 2009; “Take a Back Road,” No. 1 in 2011; and “Caught Up in the Country,” the longest run on the country singles charts in 2019. Atkins has received six nominations from the Academy of Country Music (ACM) and two nominations from the Country Music Association, winning Top New Male Vocalist from the ACM in 2006. Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com; Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000; Penn’s Peak box office; Information: https://www.pennspeak.com/events/all; 866-605-PEAK
Southern-rock survivor at The Peak: The Artimus Pyle Band, 8 p.m. Aug. 27. Penn’s Peak, 325 Maury Road, Jim Thorpe. Doors open at 7 p.m. Pyle, a Louisville, Ky., native, played drums with Lynyrd Skynyrd, 1974 - 1977 and 1987 - 1991. He and Lynyrd Skynyrd bandmates were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Pyle survived the 1977 plane crash that killed Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick and the two pilots. Pyle wrote the film, “Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash” (2020). The Artimus Pyle Band plays Lynyrd Skynyrd tunes note-for-note to the recorded versions. Pyle’s albums include “A.P.B.” (1981), “Nightcaller” (1983), ”Live from Planet Earth” (2000) and “Artimus Venomus” (2007). Tickets: www.ticketmaster.com; Ticketmaster, 800-745-3000; Penn’s Peak box office; Information: https://www.pennspeak.com/events/all; 866-605-PEAK