Spend an evening with The Gatlin Brothers, a Grammy Award-winning trio beloved in country and gospel music, Sunday, Oct. 13, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
The Gatlin Brothers are presented by UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. The concert is set for 6 p.m. Tickets are $38, $48 and $58, with $10 student tickets. For tickets, call the ASC Box Office at 205-975-2787 or visit AlysStephens.org.
UAB Visual and Performing Arts members may receive $10 off two single tickets. UAB faculty and staff may receive $15 off two single tickets. A limited number of student, member, and faculty/staff tickets are available.
Larry, Steve and Rudy, the Gatlin Brothers, have dazzled audiences for more than 60 years with a lifetime of noteworthy achievements in their storybook career. Their awards include a Grammy for Best Country Song (“Broken Lady”); three American Country Music awards for Single of the Year (“All The Gold In California”), Album of the Year (“Straight Ahead”) and Male Vocalist of the Year for Larry Gatlin; and five nominations for CMA Vocal Group of the Year, Single, Album and Male Vocalist of the Year.
The Brothers have accumulated seven No. 1 singles, 32 Top 40 records, 22 studio albums and five BMI “Million-Air” awards. Larry Gatlin ranks fourth on the list of solo writers with the most self-penned Top 40 Billboard hits. His massive song catalog has been recorded by a who’s who of entertainers, including Elvis Presley, Barbara Streisand, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell, Kris Kristofferson, Sir Tom Jones, Dottie West, Charlie Rich, Johnny Mathis and dozens of others, securing his legacy as one of BMI’s top solo songwriters of all time.
The brothers got their start in Abilene, Texas, in 1955, when Larry was 7, Steve 4 and Rudy 2. The brothers grew up singing gospel music after listening to James Blackwood and the Blackwood Brothers, Hovie Lister and The Stateman Quartet, as well other accomplished gospel artists. As children, the brothers would sing for anyone who would listen. Soon they were singing from coast to coast, and recorded gospel records. They went on to appear on television programs including “Hee Haw,” “Solid Gold” and “Love Boat,” as well as their own television specials, and performed in venues around the country and world, including Carnegie Hall, Reliant Field, the 2008 Olympics in China and London’s Wembley Stadium.