A Message from The Country Music Cruise Executive Producer Mike Jason
The Country Music Cruise Congratulates The Oak Ridge Boys on their Induction into The Country Music Hall of Fame
Please join me in congratulating The Oak Ridge Boys. The Country Music Association just announced that The Oak Ridge Boys will become the newest members of the revered Country Music Hall of Fame. Always fan favorites, The Oak Ridge Boys were with us on the 2015 sailing and they will again be joining us in 2016 with two live performances on the main stage, headlining our Gospel Music Hour as well as doing Q&A’s, signing autographs and interacting with the fans.
The Oak Ridge Boys (Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden, and Richard Sterban) will be inducted in the “Modern Era Artist” category.
Few Country Music groups have had the enduring popularity, cultural significance, or crossover success of The Oak Ridge Boys, a vocal harmony quartet that started out in traditional Country and gospel during World War II and evolved with the times to help popularize and modernize Country Music far beyond traditional genre and regional lines.
The group went through numerous lineup changes in its early decades before Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden, and Richard Sterban took control in the 1960s and early 1970s and turned it into a dynamic Country Music force. The alignment focused on high-energy vocal harmonies that brought crowds to their feet with increasingly secular music and a look and attitude that more accurately reflected the times, characterized by Golden’s still-magnificent flowing beard and fur coats.
Book now to join The Oak Ridge Boys on The Country Music Cruise 2016