Kenny Rogers announces Cavan date on his 2009 tour

A further Irish date has been announced for the legendary singer Kenny Rogers when he appears at Cavan Equestrian Centre on Friday March 20th 2009. Tickets at €65 including booking fee, will be on-sale from 9am on Friday October 17th, by calling 0818 300 277 or online at www.raglane.com. With more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and hundreds of awards including American Music Awards, Grammy Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, Kenny Rogers is one of the most influential artists of all time. Success in recent years includes the Billboard Country Charts Top Five album 'Water & amp; Bridges". For more than five decades, Rogers has delivered memorable songs, drawing fans among rock, pop, soul and country audiences. Houston-born Rogers formed his first band while in high school in 1956 and never quit making music from that point on. The rockabilly group, called The Scholars, got a record deal and released two singles that had local success, and led to a performance spot on American Bandstand. Soon afterward, Rogers joined the Bobby Doyle Trio, playing stand-up bass in the jazz band, and appearing on their album. In 1966 he became a member of the New Christy Minstrels, the popular folk group, leaving a year later to form The First Edition with other members of the troupe. & nbsp; In 1974, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition disbanded, leaving Rogers at a crossroads. Disillusioned with the fickleness of the pop world, but not with music itself, he searched for a direction to take his solo career. Impressed by the loyalty of country fans that supported their favourite artists long after they had disappeared from radio, Rogers looked to country. He"d already had some success among country fans with the First Edition and he was drawn to the type of story songs that populated the genre. It was the perfect transition for him. Though theoretically a country singer, Rogers dominated the pop charts, consistently finding songs with universal appeal. As the 1980s wound down, so did Rogers " chart success. In 1999, after forming his own record company, Dreamcatcher Entertainment, Rogers found himself back on the country chart with a touching story song about a young boy playing baseball. 'I"ve always been like a boomerang.' Rogers says. 'You can throw me away, but you can rest assured that I"m coming back. It"s not necessarily about success for me. It"s not about being the biggest star in the world. I think for all intents and purposes, if you go back to the peak of my career, I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish. To do that again doesn"t excite me. But to just be there and to be a force and have people care about what you"re recording, that"s the greatest gift you can have.'