Atkins wows huge crowd at Round-Up Happy Canyon Concert
 
PENDLETON, Ore. – More than 80 percent of the tickets were sold for the concert which kicked off Round-Up week at the Happy Canyon Arena in Pendleton. Reckless Kelly, an energetic group with roots in Bend opened for award-winning country star Rodney Atkins.
 
Pendleton resident Wendy Sorey, wife of roper Tom Sorey, and her family sat close to the action and she came away with several photos she shared with the Round-Up Association. Sorey said she thoroughly enjoyed the concert. Continue reading…

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Rodney Atkins

Rodney Atkins will headline the 2009 kickoff concert for the Pendleton Round-Up & Happy Canyon. Atkins, the Academy of Country Music’s 2006 Top New Male Vocalist will perform Saturday, Sept. 12th at the Happy  Canyon Arena in Pendleton, Ore.  The annual concert is the opening of the week-long activities of the world famous Pendleton Round-Up and Happy
Canyon.

Atkins is one of the hottest country music performers today, with four  number one hits to his credit.   Atkins also has the honor of receiving the  Billboard magazine award for the most played song in back-to-back years.  In 2006 for “If You’re Going Through Hell,” and in 2007 for “Watching You.” “These Are My People” marked Atkins’ latest number one country hit.

“”Every song I sing is about the world as I know it,” Rodney says. “Every word is real. I’m not going to sing it if it isn’t.”

A native of small-town East Tennessee, the adopted son of a loving family and the proud father to a family of his own, Atkins understands regular lives because he still leads one. “People always talk Continue reading…

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