Country star Chris Young is comin' over to Northrop with Cassadee Pope

January 28, 2016 at 11:44PM
Singer-songwriter Chris Young performs on Day 1 of the 2015 Big Barrel Country Music Festival at The Woodlands on Friday, June 26, 2015, in Dover, Del. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP) ORG XMIT: INVW
Singer-songwriter Chris Young performed at the 2015 Big Barrel Country Music Festival at The Woodlands in June in Dover, Del. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

CHRIS YOUNG

Wednesday: The only champ from the TV talent contest "Nashville Star" to make it big in country music, Young landed his first No. 1 country album last fall with "I'm Comin' Over," the title track of his fifth album. His romantic songs, such as the missing-you ballad "Sober Saturday Night" (with Vince Gill), make women swoon, but "Underdogs" shows he can rock like Eric Church. Opening is Cassadee Pope, "The Voice" champion from 2012 who duets with Young on the current single "Think of You." (7:30 p.m. Wed. $35-$55. Northrop, University of Minnesota, 84 SE. Church St., Mpls. 612-624-2345, northrop.umn.edu.)

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Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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