Concerts

Renfro Valley announces 2016 concert season

by Jessica Blankenship
Trace Adkins is set to perform at Renfro Valley.  Photo by Mike Coppola
One of Kentucky’s best concert venues is Renfro Valley Entertainment Center. It is located just an hour south of Lexington off exit 62 on I-75. Renfro Valley is known as “Kentucky’s Country Music Capital” with its new barn headliner entertainment, along with their old barn theater, as well as the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame.

Tracy Lawrence kicks off Renfro Valley’s 2016 Headliner Concerts with the first show of the season on April 16th. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, February 16th. There are many shows that return each year, including the Oak Ridge Boys, as well as Marty Stuart with his wife Connie Smith.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.renfrovalley.com or by calling the ticket office at 1-800-765-7464. Box office sales begin at 9:00 a.m. and Online/Phone sales begin at 10:00 a.m.

Renfro Valley also announced their new shows in the historic Old Barn Theatre. Thursdays at 6:30 p.m., Dukes of Hazzard fans will have to join in with the Hazzard County Hoedown. Friday nights at 6:30 p.m., it is the Renfro Valley Bandstand. Saturday is complete with a Mountain Gospel Jubilee at 3:00 p.m., followed by the longstanding Renfro Valley Barn Dance at 6:30 p.m.

Below is a list of the headliner concerts at Renfro Valley. Please note that the schedule is subject to change. Ticket prices can be located at www.renfrovalley.com.

Renfro Valley 2016 Headliner Concerts
April 16 Tracy Lawrence
April 23 Sawyer Brown
April 24 Trace Adkins
April 30 Exile
May 15 Merle Haggard
May 20 The Time Jumpers 
June 11 Billy “Crash” Craddock
June 18 Oak Ridge Boys
July 9 LeAnn Rimes
July 16 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
July 22 Wynonna and the Big Noise
July 30 Ronnie Milsap
August 5 Sara Evans
August 6 All Night Gospel Sing with Dove Brothers, Michael Combs, The Singing Cookes, and His Heart Quartet
August 20 Earl Thomas Conley
August 26 Jamey Johnson
September 3 Bobby Bare
September 9 Loretta Lynn
September 10 Gene Watson
September 16 John Anderson
September 17 The Isaacs
October 1 Dailey & Vincent
October 8 John Conlee
October 14 Mickey Gilley
October 15 Marty Stuart & Connie Smith
October 29 Rhonda Vincent & the Rage
November 5 Travis Tritt
November 18 – December 17 Christmas in the Valley