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Upcoming concerts to feature Sweeney, Butts

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Albany News

By Donnie A. Lucas

Fans of the Albany Live series of concerts at the Aztec Theater will be treated to a double dose of strong country music female performers in March and April.

Tickets are on sale for both concerts at the local non-profit’s website: www.albanylive.org.

Sunny Sweeney will headline a show on Saturday, March 18 at the Aztec. The doors open at 7:00 p.m., with the show starting at 8:00 p.m.

On Saturday, April 22, Kaitlin Butts will be featured in concert at the Aztec, with the same show time.

Tickets for both concerts are on sale at the website only.

Reserved seating for either performance is $75 and general admission tickets are $50 each.

Patrons can add a VIP experience for an additional $50 price that entitles the seat ticket holders to food and beverages after the show with the performer.

Sweeney is a “genre-bending, song writing spitfire” who has spent an equal amount of time in the musical traditions of both Texas and Tennessee, according to her biography.

She recently released her fifth studio album entitled “Married Alone,” The album was co-produced by Albany Live veteran Paul Cauthen.

Country music’s Kaitlin Butts’ most recent album “What Else Can She Do”  finds the emerging songwriter delivering a collection of “delicate, strong, and gallant characters and transformative storytellers. [The album] is a visceral display of just how raw and mighty words and actions can be – and how sometimes, knowing when to walk away can be just as compelling,” according to her biography information.

“These songs are all stories from different women facing the question: What else can she do,” says Butts. “I don’t think that life is all that pretty sometimes, and it comes with pain and pushing through hard times, or being stagnant, going through the motions, and not knowing what to do, or just being flat-out angry with whatever life has put on your plate.”

Albany Live is a non-profit organization established to support the cultivation of live music events hosted at Albany venues. It was founded in December 2021 and has hosted eight events to date.

A total of 286 tickets are available for each performance at the Aztec, with the front three rows sold as reserved seating and the remaining as general admission.

The non-profit presented a donation to the Albany High School band program and also announced the establishment of a band scholarship program.