AN EVENING OF ART & MUSIC with ANTHONY BILLUPS

Name: AN EVENING OF ART & MUSIC with ANTHONY BILLUPS
Start: 2025-10-03T21:00:00-05:00
Location: The Music Box of Rockford

Schedule

Fri, 03 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Music Box of Rockford | Rockford, IL

We are welcoming back hometowner Anthony Billups to The Music Box stage!
HE WILL ALSO BE SHOWCASING ANTHONY'S ART AT THE MUSIC BOX FOR DOWNTOWN ROCKFORD'S FALL 2025 ART SCENE OCT 3rd & 4th! SO COME EARLY TO DISCOVER, ENJOY AND BUY ART FROM ANTHONY
Rockford Register Star wrote in 2019.....
"Coming out of Hononegah around the turn of the century, Anthony Billups dreamed of becoming a Major League Baseball pitcher. Today, the professional artist and country singer and songwriter lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and he knows that baseball was just a road he needed to take to realize his true dream.
Billups' love for playing guitar, writing songs and singing them was born when he was a sophomore in college and briefly lost his sight following a car crash that eventually led to the end of his career as a baseball player. His passion for art was born in a similar fashion, when he was later told, "the only thing you can get done in two years is art. So, I'm going to get a degree in art? OK. And I just fell in love with painting."
Now, the former hard-throwing Hononegah pitcher owns Music City Murals and his paintings can be seen all around Nashville. He also plays his own songs once a week at a honky tonk bar on Broadway Street in Nashville at the Tin Roof.
Billups has built Music City Murals into a respected business in the area. A lot of his murals can be seen on his Instagram page.
He was on the A&E reality series "Crazy Hearts: Nashville" in 2014, and has also grown his music brand, releasing a new album during the pandemic, his third. "
(abbreciated version written by: Jay Taft)
Presented by Music Box of Rockford.
This is an 18+ event
LINEUP
Doors open ― 4:00 PM
ANTHONY BILLUPS ― 9:00 PM
TICKETS
RESERVED SEATING ― $25.14
GA - No Guaranteed Seating ― $18.85