BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2072@mariettaohio.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250720T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250720T170000 DTSTAMP:20250108T172900Z URL:https://mariettaohio.org/events/the-gatlin-brothers/ SUMMARY:The Gatlin Brothers DESCRIPTION:Larry\, Steve &\; Rudy\, the Gatlin Brothers are Grammy awar d-winners who have dazzled audiences for more than sixty-nine years. They have accrued a lifetime of noteworthy achievements in their storybook care er\, including a Grammy for Best Country Song (“Broken Lady”)\, three ACM awards for Single of the Year (“All The Gold In California”)\, Alb um of the Year (Straight Ahead) and Male Vocalist of the Year\, along with five nominations for CMA Vocal Group of the Year\, Single\, Album.\n\nThe Brothers have accumulated 7 # 1 Singles\, 32 Top 40 Records\, 24 Studio A lbums and 5 BMI “Million-Air” Awards. As a solo writer\, Larry ranks 4 th on Billboards top 40 self-penned hits. His impressive song catalog has been recorded by the “Who’s Who” of entertainers\, including Elvis P resley\, Barbra Streisand\, Johnny Cash\, Roy Orbison\, Glen Campbell\, Kr is Kristofferson\, Sir Tom Jones\, Dottie West\, Charlie Rich\, Johnny Mat his\, and many others\, securing his legacy as one of BMI’s top solo son gwriters. He was also most recently inducted to the Nashville Songwriter H all of Fame.\n\nFor more than 69 years\, the Gatlin Brothers have entertai ned audiences in venues and stages all over the world from the Grand Ole O pry to Carnegie Hall. They have performed for the Grammy Awards\, the Amer ican Music Awards\, and the People’s Choice Awards. They appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson\, Oprah\, Hee-Haw\, Love Boat\, the Midni ght Special with Wolfman Jack\, the Merv Griffin Show\, Solid Gold\, the B arbara Mandrell Show and their own variety special on ABC just to name a f ew.\n\nIn 1976\, the Gatlin Brothers were on the fast track musically than ks to the chart-topping success of their single “Broken Lady”. The hit s continued throughout the decade with their signature song “All the Gol d in California” followed by “Houston (Means I’m One Day Closer To Y ou).” The next decade brought number one songs with “I Don’t Wanna C ry”\, “I Just Wish You Were Someone I Love\,” “Statues Without Hea rts\,” “Love Is Just A Game“\, and “Night Time Magic.” Larry has also written &\; produced a musical\, “Quanah”\, which was perform ed in April 2017 to rave reviews.\n\nThey have performed at the White Hous e\, the President Reagan Library\, Air Force One\, Ford’s Theater\, Camp David\, President Bush’s 80th Birthday Party\, The Lincoln Theater\, Ca rnegie Hall\, Madison Square Gardens\, West Point\, The Mall in Washington D.C.\, The Greek Theater\, Billy Bob’s Texas\, Radio City Music Hall\, Disney World and The Wembley Music Festival\, to name a few. They have bee n privileged to grace the stage with legendary entertainers\, like Kenny R ogers\, Brad Paisley\, Rascal Flatts\, Vince Gill\, The Oak Ridge Boys\, t he Gaither Vocal Band\, the Isaacs just to name a few.\n\nThe brothers hav e also proudly entertained our U.S. Troops in Kuwait\, Qatar\, UAE\, Germa ny and at many military bases in the United States as well. They have appe ared at many sporting events and venues singing the National Anthem\, incl uding the ’85 and ’89 World Series\, and the U.S.\n\nOpen Tennis Tourn ament in New York City. They have performed in Yankee Stadium\, the Astrod ome\, Nissan Titans Stadium\, Candlestick Park\, Chicago White Sox Ballpar k\, NHL All Star Hockey Game in Calgary\, Alberta Canada\, Darlington NASC AR Speedway\, the Cotton Bowl\, Sugar Bowl\, Rose Bowl\, Giants Stadium\, New Orleans Saints Superdome\, Dallas Cowboys AT&\;T Stadium\, Houston Texans’ Reliant Stadium and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing\, China.\n\nThe ir career began in Abilene\, Texas in 1955 when Larry was seven\, Steve wa s four and Rudy was two. The brothers grew up singing gospel music while l istening to James Blackwood and the Blackwood Brothers\, Hovie Lister\, an d The Statesmen Quartet as well other accomplished gospel artists. As chil dren the brothers would sing for anyone who would listen. Soon they were s inging from coast to coast and appeared at the World’s Fair in 1964 in N ew York City. They recorded four Gospel records early in their career. In 1966\, Larry went to college at the University of Houston where he studied English and Law. In 1971\, he auditioned for The Imperials\, Elvis‘ bac kup group. While he did not get the job\, he met Dottie West\, who was the opening act for Jimmy Dean. Dean would later become one of Larry’s olde st and dearest friends. Dottie was initially taken with Larry’s resembla nce to Nashville songwriter Mickey Newbury. She told him one night in Las Vegas that he looked so much like Mickey\, he had to be able to write grea t songs too. Encouraged\, Larry returned to Houston\, wrote eight songs\, and sent them to Dottie. She liked them so much she sent him a plane ticke t to Nashville.\n\nThrough Dottie’s friendship\, Larry met Kris Kristoff erson\, who championed his talents as a writer and singer. Kristofferson ’s introduction to Fred Foster at Monument Records resulted in a recordi ng contract with the label. Larry’s first album\, The Pilgrim\, was rele ased later that year. Johnny Cash wrote the liner notes for the album and dubbed him “The Pilgrim”\, a name he called him the rest of his life. At this time Steve and Rudy were still in college at Texas Tech University \, but by 1975 they moved to Nashville to join Larry to form the group as we know it today.\n\nThe brothers still perform approximately 40 road conc ert dates a year as well as 30 performances at the famed Grand Ole Opry. T hey are also in the planning stages of recording some new music. “We are blessed that fans still love our music &\; attend our shows” says St eve &\; “we hope to continue as long as that’s the case.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mariettaohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025 /01/Larry-Steve-and-Rudy-The-Gatlin-Brothers-Photo-121-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Arts & Entertainment,Music LOCATION:Peoples Bank Theatre\, 222 Putnam St\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, U nited States GEO:39.415852;-81.453433 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=222 Putnam St\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Peoples Bank Theat re:geo:39.415852,-81.453433 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR