The Kody Norris Show - Bluegrass Special - Live at Cactus Theater!

The Kody Norris Show - Bluegrass Special - Live at Cactus Theater!

Friday, October 24, 2025

Doors: 6:50 pm • Showtime: 7:30 pm

Whatever you do, don’t call The Kody Norris Show ‘retro.’Because while the reigning SPBGMA Entertainers of the Year are known for the rhinestones that shinefrom their lapels and the fringe that hangs from their collars seem to conjure up memories of timesgone by, The Kody Norris Show are very much directing their gaze forever forward.Now, more than ever before.

The talented group, made up of frontman Kody Norris, Josiah Tyree, Mary Rachel Nalley-Norris, and Charlie Lowman, finds themselves with a growing legion of fans craving the comfort that comes fromtheir retro look, but equally craving dynamic instrumentation and thought-provoking lyrics – all ofwhich can be heard throughout their epic new album Rhinestone Revival.

“There is a whole chapter of country music that's just kind of faded away,” The Kody Norris Show’sfrontman once said. “I believe The Kody Norris Show has been instrumental in bringing back some ofthat nostalgia and some of that classic look that country music and bluegrass music used to have.

”The foundations of the electrifying four-piece band can be found within the roots of Kody Norrishimself, a once inquisitive youngster from Mountain City, Tennessee who would spend hours sitting inthe passenger seat of his Uncle Jack’s Chevrolet El Camino listening to the entirety of The StanleyBrothers’ 16 Greatest Hits tape, wondering if he would ever be able to match the sweet harmoniescoming through the speakers.

It was those very harmonies that Norris also would recognize wavering through the rafters of theBaptist church he attended as a kid. There was a bluegrass quartet that would play in the Free WillBaptist Church, and soon Norris became infatuated with the music that could materialize from abanjo and a guitar. So, at nine years old, he picked up the mandolin.

And he never put it down.

It was a similar love affair of music for Mary Rachel Nalley-Norris, who started playing classical violinin the fourth grade, but by the fifth grade, she knew it wasn’t for her. Instead, in a quest to differentiateherself from her musical counterparts in her grade school orchestra, she took up the fiddle. Shebegan playing the festival circuit alongside the likes of the legendary Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers and soon became one of the most dynamic females on those festival stages.

It was on that stage she eventually met her husband Kody, who had already gone on to play alongsidethe likes of Ralph Stanley, Ralph Stanley II, and Joe Isaacs throughout his already impressive career.In 2017, banjo extraordinaire Josiah Tyree signed on with The Kody Norris Show, and soon hisold-time clawhammer style fit right into the bluegrass style that the band was becoming known foracross the country. And when bass player Charlie Lowman joined in on the fun, armed with agiddiness and love for the music that he plays that soon became infectious, The Kody Norris Show aswe now know it was complete.

It was musical magic at its finest.

It’s this easy-going nature that became downright illuminated on 2017’s When I Get the Money Made,which was named Bluegrass Album of the Year by the National Traditional Country MusicAssociation. The Kody Norris Show followed it up with 2019’s All Suited Up, which debuted at #7 onthe Billboard charts. Now playing over 100 dates a year across the country and around the world, TheKody Norris Show have been part of the University of Chicago Folk Festival and are part of two weeklyprograms on the acclaimed RFD-TV's network, The Cumberland Highlanders Show and The BluegrassTrail.

But with the release of Rhinestone Revival comes a feeling that listeners have just begun to witnessThe Kody Norris Show’s very own revival, as the band finds themselves sprinkling their iconicrhinestones on a few different music genres to solidify their place on the musical landscape.And the fans can’t get enough.

In fact, it’s those fans that have raised The Kody Norris Show to a place in which they stand today, aplace where the four-piece, multi-instrumentalist, bluegrass band are quickly becoming four of themost epic entertainers of our time. Add that to the songwriting displayed on the Kody Norris-penned“Baltimore I’m Leaving,” “Fiddler’s Rock,” “Please Tell Me Why,” and the infectious “Gotta Get My BabyBack” on Rhinestone Revival, and there is no doubt that The Kody Norris Show is as current as ever.They ain’t retro. They have something different. They have something uniquely theirs. They havesomething that makes them stand out.

“We want people to know who we are,” Norris once said.

And they will.

Reserved Tickets:

Floor, first 6 rows (A-F)…..$27.50

Floor, last 6 rows (G-M)….$25.00

Standard balcony…………$22.50

Balcony Box* (includes concessions)….$54

*Box ticket holders pick up wristband at ticket booth upon arrival.

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