Country superstar Clay Walker coming to Sedgewick in April
The Town of Sedgewick has made an announcement regarding the next in their series of concerts, following up the hugely-successful November Brett Kissel concert with country music artist Clay Walker, on Saturday, April 6.
After exploding onto the Texas honky-tonk scene in 1993 with back-to-back number one hits: “What’s It To You” and “Live Until I Die,” Walker went on to place 31 titles on the Billboard’s singles chart, including other chart toppers such as “Dreaming With My Eyes Wide Open”, “If I Could Make A Living,” and “Rumour Has It.”
Throughout his career, Walker’s smooth, evocative voice and energetic stage presence has helped him score four platinum and two gold albums, along with legions of dedicated fans and national acclaim.
After achieving total album sales of over 11,000,000 and 11 number-one hit singles, he has recently released his highly anticipated newest single “Working On Me,” featuring what is being coined as addicting grooves and tender-hearted lyrics.
At 16-years-old, while working the night shift at a Super 8, he convinced a radio station to play a song he’d self-recorded on a cassette tape despite being against corporate policy.
That moment changed his life forever, as a lengthy string of hits followed, throwing him into the national spotlight.
Despite his success, Walker has never strayed far from his Texas roots and lone-star lifestyle.
In 1996, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and was told by his doctor that he would likely be in a wheelchair within four years and facing death in eight.
More than 20 years later, through a combination of hard work in managing his symptoms along with timely medical breakthroughs, Walker has become an inspiration to his fans, and continues to be one of the hardest-working country artists in the business.
“I think the best years of my recording career are ahead of me,” claims the country crooner. “I believe if the good Lord wants it, who’s going to stop it?”
The concert will be the third such show hosted in Sedgewick within the last nine months with Canadian band Trooper rocking the venue in July to start things off, and Kissel drawing a capacity crowd in November.
“We’ve had a couple of really successful shows already in 2018 that exceeded our expectations,” says Town of Sedgewick CAO Jim Fedyk.
“Right now our plan is to space out two shows over the course of the year and try to continue with the current momentum.
Tickets for the show go on sale on Dec. 12 at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at the Town of Sedgewick’s administration office, Sedgewick or Killam Wild Rose Co-op grocery stores, or at ticketmaster.ca.
