Corpus Christi, Texas – A night at a Corpus Christi IceRays game is always full of twists, turns and hits.
Coming up in November, the IceRays are planning a night that will be all that and a lot of Country too.
The Corpus Christi IceRays will present Country Night, Saturday, November 11 as the IceRays take on the Oklahoma Warriors at 7:05 p.m. CDT.
Country Night is presented by Bud Light, Harley-Davidson, and 97.5 KFTX Real Country.
The night will begin with a cool giveaway as we will be giving away an IceRays cowboy hat to the first 1,500 fans through the doors of the American Bank Center courtesy of The Ranch Dance Hall.
But that’s not all. Following the game, Country Night will conclude with a full concert headlined by Kyle Park.
“The IceRays are real excited for our first annual Country Night,” IceRays President Cassidy Lange said. We wanted to make a night out of it, with an awesome door giveaway like the cowboy hats that we think Corpus Christi will love.”
Growing up during a time when mainstream radio could still show love to throwbacks, Kyle Park was soaking up the tunes of Roger Miller, Merle Haggard, George Jones and the list goes on. It was his Dad that introduced him to classic country, the lyrically driven storytelling of Opry legends that would eventually help mold him into the artist that he is today.
After the loss of his dad in 1998, Kyle found healing in country music. He picked up a guitar at the age of 14 and never looked back, with his first paid gig coming one year later. At the time, he couldn’t see far enough down the road to realize that he was beginning a career as a singer/songwriter.
“I was really only focusing on playing country music. That’s all I wanted to do at the time, and all the time. I made my first record simply because I wanted to record the songs I had written. I hadn’t grasped that this was ever going to take me where it has, on an indescribable musical journey.”
By the time he had released his debut album (‘Big Time’) in 2005 at the age of 20, Kyle was performing hour-long shows with more than fifty-percent of his own music. Coming a long way from performing for his family in the backyard, this young man from Leander (north of Austin) was quickly becoming one of the hottest names in the Texas country music scene.
Thirteen years into his professional career, Kyle and his band have played in more than five countries, playing shows from Alaska to Germany, and frequenting more than a dozen states on a regular basis.
He’s impressively had seven #1 singles on the Texas Regional Radio Report (TRRR) and eleven singles on the Texas Music Chart’s Top 10. His limited edition ‘Fall EP’ (now part of the “Make or Break Me full-length album) peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers South Central list. Kyle’s reaped consistent national press coverage from CMT, TCN (The Country Network), Taste of Country, Country Weekly, All Music, Guitar World and more. He was direct support for numerous notable and legendary artists including George Strait, Clint Black, Mark Chestnutt, Gary Allan and more.
“With the addition of the Kyle Park concert after the IceRays game, we think it will be a great night of family, fun, and Texas Country music,” Lange said.
Single Game tickets in the Lower Bowl (rows 1-5) for Country Night will be $35, and $26 for the Upper Bowl.
This ticket will get you in to the hockey game and the post-game concert.
Single game tickets for Country Night and all IceRays home games are on sale now on Ticketmaster.com.
For more information visit goicerays.com.
