Red Roof - Utica Hosts Concert Featuring Country Band KingBilly

Red Roof -Utica recently won a national brand challenge for staff appreciation. General Manager Beth Petriski submitted a week’s worth of employee appreciation activities which she implemented during Employee Appreciation Week in May 2009. Red Roof headquarters contacted Beth and announced that Red Roof -Utica had won the challenge! Their reward is a FREE concert by country band KingBilly for staff and members of the community on the Red Roof property in Utica. The concert has been one year in the making.

KingBilly are current Red Roof Brand Ambassadors and stars of Great American Country’s TV reality series Who Is KingBilly. KingBilly will perform a FREE acoustic concert at the Red Roof, 20 Weaver Street, Utica NY on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm. The concert will be held in the parking lot area beside Red Roof. Plenty of parking is available. Food will be available from Delmonico’s and Knock Out Pizza. Please bring a lawn chair.

Red Roof has partnered with Great American County (GAC) to offer their Road Trips series of packages and travel ideas. GAC and Red Roof have been following KingBilly for the past two years as they climb their way up the country charts and entertain fans across the US with exciting concerts.

Who Is KingBilly?

At a KingBilly show, you'll experience something completely different—a blend of high, lonesome bluegrass harmonies, bluesy lap steel and banjo and the country equivalent of AC/DC power riffs. The six band members are equally adept at pickin' and writin'; like deep-sea anglers, they throw back the good tunes and only keep the great ones. KingBilly is determined to forge an innovative path to success while maintaining the integrity of the music.

Hailing from all over this great land of ours—North Dakota, Maryland, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Georgia—the members of KingBilly followed their shared destiny to Nashville, bringing their talents and dreams along for the ride. All six speak the same language as well as sharing an ability to communicate without the need for words. They're single-minded and super-tight.

As anyone who's been to a KingBilly show will enthusiastically tell you, this band—Donny Fallgatter (vocals), Kevin Weaver (drums), Charlie Worsham (banjo, mandolin, guitar, vocals), Josh Matheny (dobro, lap steel, vocals), Matt Utterback (bass, vocals) and John Osborne (guitar, vocals)—has created something vital as a unit, a brand of rockin' country that connects with both sexes in equal measure. The band's infectious, youthful energy is unlimited, as is their artistic ceiling, and they're well on their way to realizing their collective dream.

For more information contact Beth Petriski, General Manager, Red Roof, Utica 315-724-7128.