Award-winning country singer/songwriter Terri Clark will take the stage at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, 7 p.m.
Like her contemporary Shania Twain, Clark came storming out of Canada and captured the attention of the U.S. country music industry in the mid-1990s. This 8-time Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) Entertainer of the Year has also taken home the CCMA Female Vocalist of the Year award five times. Popular on radio, Clark has enjoyed six #1 hit singles in Canada and the U.S. including "Better Things To Do," "Poor Poor Pitiful Me," "Girls Lie Too," and "I Just Wanna Be Mad."
Part of a musical family, Clark hails from Medicine Hat, Alberta. She grew up listening to the music of her grandparents, Canadian country stars Ray and Betty Gauthier, and taught herself how to play guitar. Her early inspirations included Reba McEntire, The Judds and Linda Ronstadt, and upon her graduation from high school in 1987 she packed up and moved to Nashville.
Clark is said to have gotten her start in the music industry playing for tips at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a honky-tonk bar across the alley from Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium. It took her seven years, however, to break into the actual industry signing with Mercury Records. Clark then emerged as a distinctive voice on the country music landscape - driving, passionate, spirited - and every bit her own woman.
As Country Weekly noted, ".she's long and lean with a mane of chocolate tresses and piercing, amber-flecked eyes and a voice that is as warm as grandma's quilt. Cool confidence and a raucous, sometimes raw sense of humor make her attractive to both men and women. she's every girl's girlfriend and every guy's dream."
The only Canadian female artist to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry, Clark, in January, joined Musicians On Call (MOC) to perform for veterans at the Nashville VA Hospital. The visit was in partnership with the Opry and its Circle Throwdown, which brings impromptu performances with Opry artists to locations across the country.
"Being a part of Musicians On Call for our veterans was one of the most gratifying and joyful experiences I've had in my life as a musician," said Clark. "It's easy to take for granted what we enjoy and do every day, but moments like these are what it's really all about. The universal language and a magical moment in time."
View Clark's video for her hit "Better Things to Do" at www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ScBNkXaJk.
Tickets for Terri Clark are $29 and $39 and are available by calling 247-7657, on the web at www.durangoconcerts.com, or visit the ticket office inside the Welcome Center at Eighth Street and Main Avenue in downtown Durango.
Ticket Office hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. On show days, the box office at the Concert Hall will be open one hour prior to curtain. All sales final.
