The Shadow
CLIFTON FORGE—Glen Shelton, a member of The Virginia Opry, will open for Clint Black at the Berglund Center in Roanoke on Thursday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m.
Shelton, a Nashville recording artist, from Madison Heights is a 1989, graduate of Liberty University, and he first performed as a vocalist at the Historic Stonewall Theatre in Clifton Forge for Appalfolks of America in the mid-1990s.
Tickets for the show depending on seating locations are $39, $49, $59 and $79.
Cherie Suzanne Davis, co-founder of Appalfolks with her husband, M. Ray Allen, was the first vocalist to perform in the Berglund Center when it was built as the Roanoke Civic Center in 1970. She opened for Barbara Eden by performing as the lead vocalist for the Freddie Lee Orchestra.
Ray has served as the president of Appalfolks since its beginning, and he is the current director of The Virginia Opry, the country music show that made its debut on stage at the Historic Stonewall Theatre on Oct. 17, 1992. Governor Ralph S. Northam signed “Senate Bill 283” to designate The Virginia Opry as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s official Opry on March 31, 2020.
