The Brown County Music Center announced Tuesday that country artist Willie Nelson will perform in April as part of the center's inuagural season.
BCMC opened in August 2019, ten years after Nashville's Little Opry burned as a result of arson. Its opening season has included acts like Vince Gill and Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, as well as performances like Peppa Pig Live!.
Eighty-six-year-old Nelson has been performing for more than half a century and helped to establish "outlaw country" as a popular subgenre of country music.
Nelson has rebounded from a serious illness in 2018 that forced him to cancel a series of shows. He launched a new album in 2019 called Ride Me Back Home.
Nelson will perform at the Brown County Music Center April 28, and tickets go on sale Friday, Jan. 17 at 10 a.m. on the BCMC website and through Ticketmaster.
