If you go
› What: Home for the Holidays featuring James Rogers› When: 7-10 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20› Where: The Colonnade, 264 Catoosa Circle, Ringgold, Georgia› Admission: $22 adults, $20 ages 55 and older, $12 ages 12 and under› For more information: 706-935-9000› Online: colonnadecenter.org
James Rogers (Facebook.com photo)James Rogers officially retired from performing regularly in 2011, but apparently someone forgot to tell him. He started doing his “Home for the Holidays” in 2001, and continues that tradition Thursday, Dec 20.
But he has also recorded a CD and has been going back to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, on a nearly monthly basis to perform.
Thursday’s show will follow the same format as his previous holiday shows. The first half will include some of the songs he used to play during his Pigeon Forge days playing at Dollywood and songs from his newly released CD, “Once Upon a Time in America.”
The disc includes the title track, which Rogers says is about how things used to be when kids rode their bikes unchaperoned in the streets and life seemed to be simpler, and “A Song for Momma,” a track he wrote last year.