There is no real βofficialβ Tucson Rodeo concert but Desert Diamond Casinoβs double-billed country weekend Feb. 21-22, 2020, β the same weekend as the 95th annual La Fiesta de los Vaqueros β screams unofficially official.
Both concerts will be held at Desert Diamond Casino’s Diamond Entertainment Center, 1100 W. Pima Mine Road, and tickets are available through ddcaz.com.
- First up is country legend Charley Pride β the bourbon smooth baritone behind the hits βAll I Have to Offer You is Me,β βIs Anybody Goinβ to San Antone,β βAmazing Love,β βRoll on Mississippi,β βMountain of Loveβ and a half dozen others β on Feb. 21, a Friday night.
Pride had a jaw-dropping 52 top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs between 1966 and 1987 β the peak years of his five-decades-plus career.
Thirty of those songs topped the charts, making him RCA Records best selling artist in the late 1960s-early β70s β something the label hadnβt seen since Elvis a decade earlier.
Pride is 85 years old and while he no longer actively records, he still gets out on the road for a handful of shows a year including Tucson. He was here last February on the same weekend as the 94th annual rodeo with Easton Corbin. Tickets start at $45.
β’ Michael Ray, a relative new kid on the Nashville block, headlines Desert Diamond on Feb. 22 β the first time he will be on a Tucson stage since he was on the lineup at the Oro Valley Music Festival in summer 2017.
Ray is newlywed after marrying fellow country singer Carly Pearce in October and itβs a safe bet that the 31-year-old will sing his hit βOne That Got Awayβ with a little more irony than he might have when he released it in 2018.
Ray has been nudging his way into the country music conversation since he co-wrote the Big & Rich single βRun Away With You.β
Ray ended up putting that song on his 2015 eponymous debut album as well. Tickets start at $25.
