RodneyAtkinsValley City –  Country music artist Rodney Atkins will be the feature attraction during the upcoming North Dakota Winter Show Concert on Friday, March 6 around 8:30pm. And “32 Below” a Fargo Country Rock group will open the concert at 7pm inside the North Dakota Winter Show Event Center main arena. Tickets can be purchased online www.northdakotawintershow.com or at the North Dakota Winter Show office inside the Rosebud Visitor Center in Valley City or charge by phone at 1-800-437-0218 or 845-1401.
Tickets are also available at: Cork & Barrel Liquors and Neighborhood Grocery & Gas both of Jamestown, Town & Country Coop of Finley & Cooperstown, Farmland Ampride of Oakes, Highway Tesoro of Carrington, Vining Oil of Cando, Devils Lake and Fessenden, Gas Plus of Lisbon and Casey’s Stores in Valley City and all Fargo locations.
Atkins has six number one hits with “If You’re Going Through Hell,” “Watching You,” “These Are My People,” “Cleaning This Gun,” “It’s America” and “Take A Back Road.”
Atkins received six nominations from the Academy of Country Music and two from the Country Music Association, winning Top New Male Vocalist back in 2006.
Rodney Allan Atkins was born March 28, 1969 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Atkins signed a contract with Curb Records in 1996, he charted his first single on the Billboard country chart in 1997, but did not release an album until 2003’s Honesty, which included the number 4 hit “Honesty (Write Me a List.)”
If You’re Going Through Hell, his second album, was released in 2006. Its first two singles, “If You’re Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)” and “Watching You”, each spent four weeks at the top of the country music chart, and were respectively ranked as the top country songs of 2006 and 2007 according to Billboard Year-End. The album, which has since been certified platinum in the United States, produced two more number 1 singles in “These Are My People” and “Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)”. It’s America (2009) included the number 1 single “It’s America” and the top 5 hit “Farmer’s Daughter”, which was added to a later reissue of the album. Take a Back Road (2011) produced his sixth number 1 in its title track.
Atkins has received six nominations from the Academy of Country Music and two from the Country Music Association, winning Top New Male Vocalist from the former in 2006.