Music Ranch USA is a place and a corporation both devoted to family entertainment in a warm friendly environment. Its mainstay has been traditional country music, but it welcomes most kinds of music in a variety of performances, all meeting its standards of quality, decency and respect for all.
As a building, it enjoys probably the only theater in the region built for a country music show, and by a family involved in jamborees. It was completed in 1993, along with a Chow Hall, a restored historical structure that originally was filled with craft booths, and now is a restaurant serving our theater patrons.
The theater has nearly 500 padded seats, a concession stand, free parking in a lot to the rear and a city lot nearby, both lighted and patroled. Our Chow Hall is licensed for 60 and always draws an excellent rating in Health District inspections. All prices are tax inclusive!
Gene Snawder, Gen. mgr.
As a corporation it is owned by more than 60 stockholders, and operated by a general manager, Gene Snawder, under the direction of a board of directors, and assisted by literally dozens of volunteers.
In a special election April 28, Dr. Pamela Stephens, superintendent of West Point School, was chosen as chairman of the board replacing Rube Yelvington, who resigned for health reasons.
The concession stand and Chow Hall restaurant continue to be operated by the Music Ranch, Inc. volunteers.
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Submitted by Rube on Sat, 2005-07-30 12:57.
Kevin has surprised us with a change in the December schedule. On Friday Dec. 21 Rick and Renda Aiken who created the country Cookin' Band will be here for a memory show featuring other members of the "old gang" as well.
There will NOT be a show on Saturday Dec. 22.
The Chow Hall will be open Friday Dec. 21 from 5 p.m. to show time. It will NOT be open Dec. 22.
Kevin announced the change last Saturday night Dec. 8.
Henry Barnes' wife Barbara said it is hoped that the special guests booked for Dec. 22 can be available Friday Dec. 21.
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Submitted by Rube on Wed, 2007-12-12 16:44.
It as been awhile since Bluegrass music was heard at Music Ranch USA, but that silence will end in a Friday Dec. 7 show featuring the highly respected Stone Hollow Bluegrass Band.
The Stone Hollow Band has played here but not for a long time -- far too long. A great band with a great sound comprising great people.
The show will be super-affordable -- just $5 at the door. The show starts at 7 p.m. and extends to 9:30 p.m. Pay at the door. no advance ticket sales are scheduled.
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Submitted by Rube on Wed, 2007-11-21 11:37.
Michael Twitty is scheduled to perform at Grissom's Music Ranch theater Friday Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
Michael's home page has the following to say about the son of Conway Twitty:
Country music cherishes family tradition and Michael Twitty is an integral part of that great heritage. He is the oldest son of rock and country legend Conway Twitty. Conway's grandson Tre also is to perform.
Born Nov. 25 in Helena Arkansas, Michael is not only carrying on his father's celebrated legacy, he is making a mark of his own.
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Submitted by Rube on Mon, 2007-09-17 12:59.
Music Ranch Inc. welcomes the crowds to Kevin Grissom's Music Ranch USA theater to hear Kevin, his country Cookin Band, and more guests that we ever utilized. The new arrangement is bringing our previous "regulars" great shows and a stage packed full of quality performers.
Many familiar faces from years back are in the theater each Saturday, and hundreds of new faces. We are privileged to serve all at our concession stand, operated by Vernon Curl as always, and in our Chow Hall, operated by Nancy Yelvington, cook Vicky and the familiar volunteer attendants from our ranks of stockholders and loyal fans.
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Submitted by Rube on Fri, 2007-08-03 08:43.
Kevin Grissom and the Country Cookin' Band just about filled up the Music Ranch theater with their first show Saturday July 21. And the parking lots were full. The band and the sound were flawless.
Not everything was perfect -- a first night never is. The ticket window lines -- and the wait -- were too long. And yes, we really ran out of food in the Chow Hall Restaurant. Both problems will be corrected for the show July 28.
Meanwhile, Grissom's managers Henry and Barbara Barnes and Music Ranch Inc.'s Rube Yelvington carried the message of the changes in West Point at a business fair "up the road (Dixie Hwy) Tuesday July 24 in Pleasant Ridge Park. Our literature included a picture of the long ticket window line last Saturday.
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Submitted by Rube on Wed, 2007-07-25 09:51.
When is will Narvel Felts be back?”
That question was asked countless times after Saturday night’s “final show” by we Music Ranch’s founding operators.
We promise, his health permitting, Narvel will be back in 2008. Either Kevin Grissom, Music Ranch’s new operator/producer, will schedule him or we will as a special show on some time other than a Saturday.
Many of those in the audience Saturday night had never heard Narvel, and became instant fans. Fans from Missouri, Indiana, Tennessee and Minnesota as well as Kentucky will be back whenever Narvel is here.
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Submitted by Rube on Tue, 2007-07-17 16:01.
The Music Ranch USA country music theater will become Kevin Grissom’s Music Ranch USA July 15, the new home of the Country Cookin’ Band. Kevin is the third in the string of operators of the country music theater.
The theater was built by the Ivan and Raymond Jennings families. Ivan had operated a country music show in Missouri, recorded a hit song, gave Nashville a twirl but didn’t dig the club scene, became a truck driver out of Louisville.
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Submitted by Rube on Sat, 2007-07-07 09:49.
Beginning July 15. 2007, the Music Ranch USA theater will be operated by Kevin Grissom. Grissom has established an enviable reputation both as a band leader and as a musician at the Lebanon Junction Jamboree.
Music Ranch, Inc., a Kentucky corporation, will continue to operate the Chow Hall restaurant 5-7 p.m. before the Saturday night shows, and other hours as announced. But Kevin will be in complete control of the 500 seat theater after the July 14 Narvel Felts concert.
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Submitted by Rube on Tue, 2007-06-19 15:25.
I think there is evidence to invoke a distinctive term for the Indiana Hard Core Country Band -- It is a feel good band, a band you feel comfortable listening to, with no unsettling surprises. Sort of like an automobile in which you have full confidence, get in and start the motor and know what to expect from performance.
This is a stand alone statement, and is in no way a comparison between this band and the other three -- oops, make that four other bands that come under our umbrella of "house bands."
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Submitted by Rube on Sun, 2007-05-27 12:02.
