Pam Tillis coming to NPAC Nov. 15

Pam Tillis is coming to Greeneville, Tenn. The singer will perform at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center Thursday, Nov. 15. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $27.50 for adults, $12 for students and children and $23.25 for groups of 10 or more.

Tillis is a superstar as well as a survivor. A child of Music City royalty, Mel Tillis, and a former rebel, she was determined to find her own way as a singer and songwriter — and she succeeded. A CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, she has written songs for some of the top singers in and beyond Nashville, including more than a few of her own hits.

She knows what it's like to break the platinum barrier, to top the singles charts time and again, to bask in an ovation at her induction as a member of the Opry or play in the intimate hush of the Bluebird Café. She has bathed in the lights of Broadway, posed for glamour magazine spreads, sung ballads in Bay Area bistros, batted wicked one-liners back to Tom Bergeron on Hollywood Squares, even made cameos in movies.

Tillis has had 13 songs hit the top ten list, and six No. 1 spots on the charts. Over the years she has sold more than 5 million records and her newest album, "Rhinestoned," was released earlier this year.

Hits like “Cleopatra, Queen on Denial,” “Shake the Sugar Tree” and “Maybe it was Memphis,” join with new works from "Rhinestoned" such as “Crazy by Myself” and “Down by the Water.”

"What I'm doing is country — but not necessarily the kind that you hear on the airwaves these days," Tillis said. "I admire a lot of this music; after all, I've sung rock, pop, R&B, and jazz, so I'm hardly a purist. But what I'm hearing now sounds often more like pop than country to me. And I just seriously felt called by that old different drummer to something a little bit more like the country I remember from my formative years, the country music of my youth." It's also something Tillis' fans and friends clamor for as she encounters them out on the road.

For tickets or more information, contact the NPAC box office at (423) 638-1679 or visit the website at www.greenevillenpac.com. NPAC is located adjacent to Greeneville High School at 212 Tusculum Blvd.