Suzy Bogguss

GRAMMY award winning, platinum-selling American country singer Suzy Bogguss, one of the most acclaimed female country singers of the late 1980s and 1990s, will headline Lone Star Fest on Friday night, March 13, 2015.  Suzy, one of country music’s most pristine and evocative vocalists, delivers a unique blend of country, folk, and acoustic music in a way that leaves audiences wanting more.

Bogguss rose to fame in the 1990s after releasing one platinum and three gold albums as well as hit singles Outbound Plane, Someday Soon, Letting Go, and Drive South.  She’s won the Academy of Country Music’s Top New Female Vocalist Award and Country Music Association’s Horizon Award.  Suzy won the GRAMMY for Best Traditional Folk Album in 2005 for Beautiful Dreamer:  The Songs of Stephen Foster.  She’s performed on shows such as Austin City Limits, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Live with Regis and Kelly, and The View, and is a frequent guest on National Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.  In 2011, Suzy released her American Folk Songbook, a 17-song CD and hardcover book with stories and sheet music, that is available online and at Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores.

Mario Tarradell, music critic and writer formerly of the Dallas Morning News, has this to say about Suzy Bogguss, who is scheduled to perform on Friday night at Lone Star Fest.