Time: 7:30 p.m.
Tickets:$50 plus fees
2015 CCMA Album of The Year Winner: Dallas Smith &
Petric to perform live at ENMAX Centre March 3rd for the PBR Kick Off
Concert, Presented by Mr. Mikes Lethbridge.
Tickets On Sale Fri Nov 20th at 10AM and are priced at $50 + Fees.
Tickets Can Be Purchased By Phone: (403) 329-7328 Online at www.enmaxcentre.ca or In Person at ENMAX Centre & Yates Thetre
Dallas Smith http://www.dallassmithmusic.com
Leave it to a singer from Canada to best sum up America’s car culture. In his high-octane new single “Kids With Cars,” arena-voiced country artist Dallas Smith takes a nostalgic spin through the days when having four wheels was all that mattered.
“It takes you back to the first car you ever owned in high school, to
when you hung out in the parking lot,” Dallas says. “You had your little
group of Civics and imports over here, and you had the guys with the
classic cars over there. And then there were the girls with the
brand-new Mustangs. All of the different social groups were based upon
what you drove.”
For Dallas, he experienced those car cliques
growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he eventually turned
the key on what would become a hugely successful recording and touring
career. As the lead singer of the multi-platinum rock group Default, he
entertained hundreds of thousands of fans around the world, leading epic
sing-alongs of the band’s monster hit “Wasting My Time.” Eventually
setting out on his own as a solo artist, Dallas dominated the Canadian
country charts with songs like “Lifted,” “Tippin’ Point” and the
multi-week #1 hit “Wastin’ Gas.”
Raised on the music of such
country megastars as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn and
Reba McEntire, Dallas knew his path would ultimately lead him to
Nashville. Especially when he discovered later, through Keith Urban and
Rascal Flatts, that he could fuse his affection for guitar-driven rock
with country storytelling.
“Today Country radio sounds like the
perfect mix of what I grew up with,” he says. “This really is the best
of both worlds for me.”
Helping Dallas bridge those worlds is
producer Joey Moi, who has overseen chart-topping albums by Florida
Georgia Line and Jake Owen. “We’ve always talked about how cool it would
be to make a record that involves all the musical styles we grew up
liking,” says Dallas of his longstanding partnership with Joey.
Their first stab at such an album was Dallas’ Canadian country debut,
JUMPED RIGHT IN, a project that netted Dallas five Canadian Country
Music Association Award nominations in 2013 in addition to a JUNO Award
nomination for Country Album of the Year. At the 2015 CCMA Awards, he’s
up for four trophies, including Album of the Year, Single of the Year,
Male Artist of the Year and Fans’ Choice Award and earlier this year,
won the JUNO Award for Country Album of the Year for LIFTED. In
addition, Dallas — whom the Huffington Post named one of its 15 Country
Artists to Watch — is the only Canadian male country artist to spend
multiple weeks at the top of the Country Airplay Chart in the Nielsen
BDS era for single “Wastin’ Gas”.
Now fully entrenched in the
Nashville community (he made his American country debut with the
infectious single “Tippin’ Point”), Dallas has been tearing up U.S.
roads as the opening act for Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett and Florida
Georgia Line.
Still, he is steadfastly his own performer,
forging his own identity both on record and on stage, and standing out
thanks to a blockbuster voice. “I want to use that to my advantage,” he
admits humbly. “I have something to offer vocally that I hope country
music fans will really like.”
Along with those soaring pipes,
Dallas also has a wealth of radio-ready songs lined up for his American
full-length debut, set for a 2016 release on Blaster Records. Running
the gamut from no-holds-barred rockers to earnest love songs, the new
album showcases the many sides of the down-to-earth country-rocker. It
also includes three of his most popular songs from his
soon-to-be-released KIDS WITH CARS EP: “Wastin’ Gas,” the dynamic
“Lifted” and the joyously rhythmic “Cheap Seats.”
The focal point, though, is the genre-bending newness of “Kids With Cars.”
“That song is right up my alley. It comes from a blue-collar
background, which is what I grew up with. It’s 100 percent relatable to
me and brings me back to a cool and familiar place in my life,” he says.
It’s also the perfect vehicle with which to introduce Dallas to a
broader fan base. In the end, he says, he most wants to be known for his
diversity: as an interpreter of songs, from anthems to ballads.
“I never want to be an artist that releases the same type of song every
time. I want to cover a bunch of different topics,” he says. “With
‘Kids With Cars,’ this is the most on my game I’ve ever felt.”
(403) 320-4040
The City of Lethbridge ENMAX Centre was built as a lasting legacy of the 1975 Canada Winter Games.