TRAIN, Wayne Newton and Riley Green announced as part of DPAO 2023 Concert Series

WATERTOWN- The latest artists and groups have been confirmed for the 2023 DPAO Concert Series.

On Monday, August 21, officials are proud to announce the diamond-selling band ‘TRAIN;’ Wayne Newton (aka Mr. Las Vegas) on Friday, August 25 and country star Riley Green on Friday, September 22.

All shows will take place at 7:00 p.m. at the Watertown Fairgrounds Arena.

Ticket sales will be announced soon. Proceeds from DPAO’s Annual Concert Series provides programs and services to the 600+ families we serve with developmental disabilities in Jefferson, Lewis and surrounding areas.   

Visit www.dpaoconcerts.com or call DPAO at 315-782-0044 for additional information on the DPAO 2023 Concert Series.

Opening for TRAIN will be the Eli Young Band. 

Train is a multi-GRAMMY and Billboard Award-winning band from San Francisco that has had 14 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 list since the release of their debut self-titled album.  Train’s climb to the top began in 1994, as the original 5-member band tenaciously built a loyal hometown following, leading up to their debut album, released by Columbia in 1998.  The tumbling wordplay of “Meet Virginia” gave them their first unlikely radio hit and 2001’s Drops of Jupiter brought them to multi-platinum status thanks to the double-Grammy Award winning title song that spent 10 months in the Top 40, has been certified 7x platinum in the US, and earned the 2001 GRAMMY Award for Best Rock Song.

The group won another GRAMMY Award in 2011 for their global hit “Hey, Soul Sister” from their multi-platinum album Save Me, San Francisco.  “Hey, Soul Sister” was the No. 1 best-selling smash and most downloaded single of 2010, achieved RIAA Diamond status in 2021 and now 11x platinum, and in 2022 surpassed one billion streams on Spotify.

Train has sold more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide, with multiple platinum/gold citations, including three GRAMMY Awards, two Billboard Music Awards and dozens of other honors.  They’ve had 12 albums on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their 2014 Bulletproof Picasso reaching No. 4 in 2012 and 2017’s a girl a bottle a boat, went platinum in four countries including the U.S. hit Top 5 on the US iTunes chart, Top 10 at Hot AC radio, and charted at Adult Top 40.  Train’s highly anticipated 11th studio album, AM Gold, was released on May 20, 2022.

Wayne Newton is one of the most popular singers in the nation and remains one of the best-known entertainers in Las Vegas.  His well-known songs include “Danke Schoen” (1963), “Summer Wind” (1965), “Red Roses for a Blue Lady” (1965), “Daddy, Don’t You Walk So Fast” (1972) and “Years” (1980).  “Danke Schoen” is Newton’s signature song and was notably used in the 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Rolling Stone hailed Riley Green’s musical perspective as “Drinks-in-the-air Nineties Country at an Alabama vs. Auburn tailgate,” and that is just the type of energy fans have come to expect from the country star.  Raised on the sounds of traditional Country, Bluegrass and Southern Gospel music, the Jacksonville, AL native learned the spirit of songwriting and performing at a young age while spending time with his grandfather, Bufford Green, who ran the Golden Saw Music Hall.  That stage laid a foundation for the songs Riley would craft in the years to come and values learned from another generation.  

He fittingly shares co-writing credits posthumously alongside his two grandfathers on the PLATINUM certified “I Wish Grandpas Never Died.” which People praised “might take him to a whole new stratosphere.”  Evident on his debut album Different ‘Round Here (BMLG Records), featuring the PLATINUM-certified hit No. 1 “There Was This Girl,” MusicRow noted his “great Country vocal, honest presentation and true-to-life lyrics.  

Riley’s Behind the Bar collection with GOLD-certified “If It Wasn’t For Trucks” and We Out Here: Live followed as the 2020 ACM Awards New Male Artist of the Year has “brought Country back to its roots:  the blue collar sounds for the working man, by the working man” (Whiskey Riff).  

Riley was also voted as one of the CRS 2020 New Faces and earned MusicRow’s Breakout Artist of the Year.  

The CAR-FRESHNER / FX CAPRARA HONDA OF WATERTOWN:  YOUR LOCAL UPSTATE HONDA DEALER 2023 Concert Series presented by

DPAO, Carthage Area Hospital, Claxton Hepburn, North Country Orthopedics and Watertown Savings Bank is made possible in part thanks to the generous support of our Main, Presenting, Major and Contributing Sponsors.

Main Sponsors include:  Car-Freshner Corporation and FX Caprara Honda of Watertown:  Your Local Upstate Honda Dealer.  

Presenting Sponsors include:  Watertown Savings Bank, Carthage Area Hospital, Claxton Hepburn, North Country Orthopedics and DPAO.

Major Sponsors include:  Kinney Drug Foundation, Jreck Subs, 

M&T Bank, Town of Watertown, McQuade and Bannigan, 

Eagle Beverage Company/Labatt Blue Light, Ken Tibbles Roofing,

Pala Wood Services Company, R Martins Contracting, Lake Ontario Realty and Jake Johnson Properties.

Contributing Sponsors include:  New York Air Brake Corporation, County of Jefferson, Barrett Paving Materials, Town of LeRay, KeyBank, Northern Computers / NNY On-Line, Hilton Garden Inn,

Thousand Islands Winery, The ARC Jefferson – St. Lawrence New York, Ramada, Hannaford Supermarkets, Party Rentals, Rose & Kiernan, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Price Chopper Supermarkets, 

The Stebbins Engineering and Manufacturing Company, Pizza Hut,

Texas Roadhouse Restaurant, Westelcom, Hannaford Supermarkets,  Pepsi Beverages Company and The Alliance for Better Communities.  

A special “thank you” goes out to the local media who assists the DPAO Foundation in promoting our concerts and special events.  They include:  Spectrum Cable, 7 News/Fox 28, ABC 50/The CW, NBC Watertown, WPBS Public Television, Stephens Media Group, Community Broadcasters, Intrepid Broadcasting, Inc. (Tunes 92.5 & 104.5 FM),  Flack Broadcasting Group, Watertown Daily Times, 

Up North Entertainment Magazine, Newzjunky, WSNN/WPDM Radio, 

St. Lawrence County Newspapers, North Country This Week and Thousand Islands Sun.  

Image via DPAO Concert Series.