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Amazing . Wonderful. Wish I could go to more. Great entertainment. Smiled the whole time. Felt appreciated as an audience. Just so fun. Sad when over. These guys are amazing. They made my son's day..no year... No life! What fun!
What a great evening of music and comedy. A definite must see!
The group was entertaining and talented, but there was something about the way they sang together that wasn't as pleasant as I expected. I like this type of music and I like hearing groups sing together. However, this group did not blend well and they did very little harmonizing, with almost no base input. It seemed like they always blasted their words into the microphone, and most of the time it seemed like they all sang the same notes....that's not harmonizing. Maybe it was an off night or maybe someone wasn't feeling well, but I certainly have heard much better quartets singing together.
We saw this group 25 years ago in Portland Oregon when we were newlyweds. Saw them again at the King County Fair, and were thrilled to find that they are still entertaining. Thank you Riders in the Sky for a delightful evening. All four of you are amazingly talented. Thanks for sharing that with us.
What a wonderful evening. Riders in the Sky's voices were as pleasing in concert as on any CD of theirs I have ever heard over the past 35 years...A wonderful mix of favorites and Christmas Holiday tunes delivered with a mix of tradition and up-to-date humor. I am glad I did not miss this concert and would, again, drive 150 miles to see them....Don't wait so long to come back to our area...and to those of you who did not make it this time, don't miss them when the next chance arises.
I have seen Riders in the Sky perform many times before, but this was the first Christmas the Cowboy Way concert. The guys seemed to be a little more inspired by the more intimate and acoustically wonderful University Auditorium, making this event one of the best I have attended.
What a fantastic date night with my fiance & a group that has you singing one moment & cracking up the next! We wish them many long years of happiness.
If you have any passion at all for the old cowboy tunes, then you have to see these guys. In addition to the fun, foot tapping music, they offer good, clean (ok, sometimes corny) comedy. I have now seen them four times in concert spanning over twenty five years and each time I've left the concert knowing they gave it their all and felt like their main goal was to have all the concertgoers leave with a huge smile on their face. Lastly, you will never be embarrassed to take a youngster along with you to the concert since there is absolutely zero profanity.
Best concert of the year. Very entertaining. I sang almost every song
Riders in the Sky was one of the best shows I have been to in a long time. Like a trip down memory lane. They don't make good clean entertainment that the entire family can enjoy like that any more.
Riders In The Sky have been doing it "The Cowboy Way" for 34 years. Their shows never grow old. They put on a awesome show. Great cowboy music, harmony is unbelievable and comedy that is absolutely side splitting. They give you your money's worth that is for sure. They play to the crowd and include the audience in choices of songs. They are true entertainers. Plus after the concert they sign autographs and take pictures with the fans. Very friendly and personable gentlemen. They do what they do for their fans, cause it is The Cowboy Way!
Really enjoyed the show. I wanted to see the show to hear a lost art. The western and cowboy songs were great. Well worth the money.
The concert far exceeded my expectations. the performers were able to entertain the crowd throughout the entire presentation. I was pleased that they were professional enough to start on time different than other performers that start 10 minutes late.
A great blend of humor, entertainment, and excellent musicianship. I've been a fan for over 20 years and they still put on a fun show for all ages. Thanks to their contribution to Toy Story 2, their talent and real western music will continue to be introduced to new generations. That's the Cowboy Way!
As always; good music, good humor, great audience raport. And, as usual, they staid afterward for autographs and meeting the people.
Great music! Sorry there were not more people there to take advantage of two great musical performances. Only negatives came from two men who brought five or six young children to this event. These children were way too young to know how to be quiet and to not kick the seats of those in front of them. When various audience members gave them meaningful looks the men acted like nothing was amiss...such poor and unrespectful behaviors! Finally they did leave during the main set but not before they had irritated a good number of folks and ruined many a good moments of potential listening enjoyment from two fabulous groups. IMHO, Management should have intervened but did not. BTW, I work with children and love them all, but these needed more lessons/maturity before undertaking this type of outing. I was unfamiliar with opening act but I am now a fan!
the Riders In The Sky was a very fun night.If you like cowboy songs &great comdy act.The only bad thing about the show was my seats they was right at stage in front of speaker.do not get a ticket in aa;bb rows.You can't see all that going on stage.next i make sure A row or back.
We took our 12 year old daughter with us to see Riders in the Sky and we all loved the show. The quartet is not only visually entertaining and very funny, but also musically talented. It was a great evening and we would highly recommend RitS to all. After 30 years of touring they can't possibly keep this up for very much longer. See them while you can!
a fine show all the way around. the only problem? a noticeably meager audience turnout. someone at the opera house said attendance was somewhere around 360. and in a facility seating around 1,110, that can't help but stand out. in all honesty, i went as much to see the opening set by chris hillman and herb pedersen as riders in the sky. seemed i was in the minority on that, though. the crowd received the duo politely but responded more vocally to a cover of the buck owens hit "together again" than they did byrds hits like "turn, turn, turn" and "eight miles high." regardless, it was a fine 40 minute set that covered a lot of ground, from pedersen's bluegrass hit "wait a minute" to hillman solo works like "desert rose." the aforementioned byrds tunes took on a fresh western sound within the mandolin/guitar setting, too. vocally, both sounded great with solid, rich tones and terrific harmonzing. the riders were fine as well. the program offered essentially the same set list and jokes that have made up their shows for years. despite that familiarity, it was pretty hard not to get drawn into their cowboy campfire world. songs like "cool water," "texas plains" and even "rawhide" boasted clean, cherry harmonies and joey the cowpolka king's instrumental take on the les paul hit "how high the moon" underscored the light, lyrical nature of group's arrangements. though pretty choreographed in many ways, the riders still possess a sharp wit. when a bat dove down from the vast heights of the opera house stage during the otherwise graceful "the arms of my love," joey added in a bit of the instrumental "batman" tv show theme from the '60s on accordion. all in all, a wonderful evening. wish more folks checked it out, though.
Riders in the Sky put smiles on the faces of young and old alike at the Lexington Opera House with faithful renditions of cowboy classics and funny asides -- all related to their philosophy that straight shooters with a sense of humor are the bedrock of "The Cowboy Way." When was the last time you heard good cowboy yodeling? Ranger Doug Green still hits the high notes. Green, Too Slim, Woody Paul and Joe 'Cowpolka King' were thoroughly entertaining mixing reverence and frivolity. Mention must also be made of the opening act, Chris Hillman and Herb Pederson, longtime collaborators, who played a stirring acoustic set with just mandolin and guitar. I had a smile on my face all night, thanks to all these veteran musicians.
