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Vince Gill Tickets - Riveting Series at Country Music Hall of Fame

Vince Gill was destined to be a Hall of Famer. The longtime country music singer and multi-instrumentalist has been kicking up dust on the country charts for more than 20 years, and his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007 wasn't his last appearance at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Gill has recently been busy with public performances at the famed Ford Theater, playing a string of three performances for the Hall of Fame's annual artist-in-residence series.
Gill performed the first show of his three-part series on Feb. 4, standing onstage at the Ford Theater while talking to the audience members with Vince Gill tickets and strumming his guitar along to his signature songs like "Don't Let Our Love Start Slipping Away," his first number one-charting single in 1992 and the first song of the night, also playing several more of his classics like "These Days," "Tulsa Time," "Go Rest High on That Mountain" and "One More Last Chance," among several others. Vince Gill was backed by keyboardist Pete Wasner, upright bass player Mike Bubb and percussionist Billy Thomas during his Feb. 4 performance, joining the ranks of other Country Music Hall of Famers like Earl Scruggs, Tom T. Hall, Cowboy Jack Clement, Kris Kristofferson, Guy Clark and Jerry Douglas, who have all held musical series at the Hall of Fame, as well.

Vince Gill has made it a long way from his hometown of Norman, Oklahoma, which is where he started shaping and molding his famed music career. Gill grew up in a musical family, picking up the banjo and guitar by his teenage years. After learning to play the fiddle, dobro, mandolin and bass guitar, Gill focused his efforts solely on music and joined the bluegrass band Mountain Smoke, which hit the peak of its fame when the band opened for Pure Prairie League in a concert. Gill later joined the country-rock group as Pure Prairie League's lead singer in the late '70s, eventually going solo in 1983 with the help of a record deal with RCA.

In 1984 Vince Gill made his solo debut to the nation, releasing Turn Me Loose and notching his first single on the country music charts with the hit single "Victim of Life's Circumstance." The duet "If It Weren't for Him" with Roseanne Cash gave Gill his first Top 10 single soon thereafter, and the hits just kept rolling in from there. The wildly popular country crooner took the rest of the '80s and '90s as a time to experiment with contemporary country instead of his previously-signature bluegrass tunes, and Gill hit the jackpot in 1992 with the jukebox favorite "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away," his first number one single on the country music charts. Gill packed a punch with hit singles "One More Last Chance," "Tryin' to Get Over You" and "The Heart Won't Lie" (a duet with Reba McEntire), and the name Vince Gill was inescapable in Nashville thereafter.

The 2000s have been just as fruitful for Vince Gill, and although his musical heyday came in the early '90s the Nashville star is still pumping out hits. After marrying pop/Christian singer Amy Grant in 2000, Gill has continued burning up the charts with albums like Next Big Thing in 2003 and These Days in 2006, also making waves with recent charting singles "The Reason Why" and "What You Give Away" in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Vince Gill has also spent much of the 2000s touring, and if you haven't seen this country music icon jamming away on his several instruments onstage, get concert tickets from http://www.stubhub.com/vince-gill-tickets and enjoy the show!