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Grammy winning country duo headlines one night only show in Lexington. How to get tickets

Country duo Dan+Shay will perform at the Kansas State Fair on Sept. 8, alongside Cassadee Pope.
Country duo Dan+Shay will perform at the Kansas State Fair on Sept. 8, alongside Cassadee Pope. File photo

Three-time Grammy Award winning country music duo Dan + Shay will host a one-night-only concert in Lexington later this month.

The show will take place at the Lexington Opera House on Oct. 26. It will be an “intimate acoustic concert” featuring special guests Nate Smith and Megan Moroney.

A pre-sale for the show started Thursday at 10 a.m., and tickets became accessible using code WBUL on the Lexington Opera House’s website. Tickets will go on sale Monday at 10 a.m. at Lexingtonoperahouse.com.

Dan + Shay have garnered more than eight billion global career streams, according to a news release from the Lexington Opera House announcing the concert. They have won three Academy of Country Music Awards, been named the Country Music Association’s Duo of the Year twice and have achieved eight No. 1 singles on country radio among other achievements.

Smith, an artist out of Nashville, had his debut single, “Whiskey On You” reach the top 40 on the country charts. Moroney is a Georgia native who recently released a new album titled “Pistol Made of Roses.”

This story was originally published October 6, 2022 at 9:29 AM.

Christopher Leach
Lexington Herald-Leader
Chris Leach is a breaking news reporter for the Lexington Herald-Leader. He joined the newspaper in September 2021 after previously working with the Anderson News and the Cats Pause. Chris graduated from UK in December 2018. Support my work with a digital subscription
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