BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.6.6//EN X-WR-CALNAME:The Marshall Tucker Band at The Bangor State Fair X-WR-CALDESC:Bangor Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Marshall Tucker Band at The Bangor State Fair DESCRIPTION:Tickets will be available at crossinsurancecenter.com\, or t he Cross Insurance Center box office.\n\n\n\nDoug Gray – lead vocalsB. B. Borden – drumsRyan Ware – bass / vocalsMarcus James Henderson – keyboards / saxophone / flute / vocalsChris Hicks – guitar / vocalsRi ck Willis – guitar / vocals\n\n\n\nWhen you wake up and want to put a smile on your face\, you think of the songs that always manage to reach down and touch your soul the moment you hear the first note. The Marshal l Tucker Band is one such group that continues to have a profound level of impact on successive generations of listeners who’ve been "Searchin ’ for a Rainbow" and found it perfectly represented by this tried-and- true Southern institution over the decades. “I’ve been in tune with how music can make you feel\, right from when I was first in the crib\, explains lead vocalist and bandleader Doug Gray\, who’s been fronti ng the MTB since the very beginning. “I was born with that. And I real ized it early on\, back when I was a little kid and my mom and dad encou raged me to get up there and sing whatever song came on the jukebox. It got to the point where people were listening to me more than what was on the jukebox! There’s a certain gift I found I could share\, whether I was in front of five people or 20\,000 people. I was blessed with that ability and I’m thankful I can share with others."\n\n\n\nThe Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young\, hungry\, and quite driven six-pi ece outfit in Spartanburg\, South Carolina in 1972\, having duly baptize d themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it in scribed on a key to their original rehearsal space — and they’ve bee n in tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all acros s the globe ever since. Plus\, the band’s mighty music catalog\, consi sting of more than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases\, has r acked up multi-platinum album sales many times over. A typically rich MT B setlist is bubbling over with a healthy dose of hits like the heartfel t singalong “Heard It in a Love Song\,” the insistent pleading of Can’t You See” (the signature tune of MTB’s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy Caldwell)\, the testifying “Fire on the Mountain\,” the wanderlust gallop of “Long Hard Ride\ ,” and the explosive testimony of “Ramblin\,’” to name but a few .\n\n\n\nIndeed\, the secret ingredient to the ongoing success of The Ma rshall Tucker Band’s influence can be seen and felt far and wide throu ghout many mainstream digital outlets (Netflix\, Amazon\, etc.). In esse nce\, it’s this inimitable down-home sonic style that helped make the MTB the first truly progressive Southern band to grace this nation’s a irwaves — the proof of which can be found within the grooves and ever- shifting gears of “Take the Highway\,” the first song on their self- titled April 1973 debut album on Capricorn Records\, The Marshall Tucker Band. “We had the commonality of having all grown up together in Spar tanburg\,” explains Gray about his original MTB bandmates\, guitar wiz ard Toy Caldwell and his brother\, bassist Tommy Caldwell\, alongside rh ythm guitarist George McCorkle\, drummer Paul T. Riddle\, and flautist/s axophonist Jerry Eubanks. “The framework for Marshall Tucker’s music is more like a spaceship than a house\,” Gray continues\, “because you can look out of a lot of windows and see a variety of things that sh ow where we’ve been and what we’ve done\, and how we’ve travelled through time to bring those experiences out in all of our songs.”\n\n\ n\nThe Marshall Tucker Band’s influence can be felt far and wide throu gh many respected contemporaries and the artists who’ve followed the p ath forged by their collective footsteps and footstomps. “MTB helped o riginate and personify what was to become known as Southern rock\, and I was privileged to watch it all come together in the ’70s\, night afte r night\,” said the legendary late Charlie Daniels. “In fact\, The C harlie Daniels Band has played more dates with The Marshall Tucker Band over the past years than any other band we’ve ever worked with. Even a fter all these years — after the tragedies\, the miles\, the personnel changes\, and the many developments in the music business.” Daniels a dded that he never got tired of seeing his MTB brothers on the road: “ Whenever Doug Gray walks into my dressing room with that big ol’ smile of his and then we hug each other and sit and talk for a while\, the ev ening is complete.”\n\n\n\n“I remember seeing Marshall Tucker and Th e Outlaws play together in Jacksonville many years ago\, when I was just a kid\,” recalls Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Johnny Van Zant. “And I heard them all over the radio back then too. They were just so cool and so unique that I fell in love with the band\, and I also fell in love w ith the music. Having them open for us on all those dates was like a dre am come true\, and they’re still as good as I’ve ever seen them. It brought back a lot of memories for me\, because I really looked up to th ose guys when I was first starting out.”\n\n\n\nEd Roland\, the lead v ocalist and chief songwriter for Collective Soul\, adds “The Marshall Tucker Band had a big influence on me and they still do.” Roland\, who ’s lived the majority of his life in and around Atlanta\, also proudly points out that his band’s biggest hit\, “Shine\,” owes a clear d ebt to the musical structure of “Can’t You See\,” and he’ll ofte n start off by singing the opening line to that song — “I’m gonna take a freight train” — whenever Collective Soul performs “Shine live. “We don’t want to stray from what we grew up listening to\, Roland continues. “I think that’s something important for people to hear. It’s just who we are\, and I don’t think we should run from it. Hopefully\, people see that southern connection to the bands we lov e like Marshall Tucker in our music.”\n\n\n\nDoug Gray sees no end to the road that lies ahead for The Marshall Tucker Band\, whose legacy is being carried forward by the man himself and his current bandmates\, dru mmer B.B. Borden (Mother’s Finest\, The Outlaws)\, bassist/vocalist Ry an Ware\, keyboardist/saxophonist/flautist/vocalist Marcus James Henders on\, guitarist/vocalist Chris Hicks\, and guitarist/ vocalist Rick Willi s. “You know\, I think it was Toy Caldwell’s dad who said\, ‘There ’s more to gray hair than old bones\,’ and we still have a lot of st ories yet to tell\,” Gray concludes. “People ask me all the time wha t I’m gonna do when I turn 80\, and I always say\, ‘The same thing t hat we’re continuing to do now.’ We’re road warriors\, there’s n o doubt about that — and I don’t intend to slow down.” May the MTB wagon train continue running like the wind on a long hard ride for many more years to come. One thing we absolutely know for sure: If you heard it in a Marshall Tucker Band song\, it certainly can’t be wrong.\n\n\ n\n—Mike Mettler\, this ol’ MTB chronologist URL;VALUE=URI:https://downtownbangor.com/events/the-marshall-tucker-band -at-the-bangor-state-fair/ UID:urn:uuid:22ef7f88-016f-4c25-a873-54d5679a58d0 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260515T103203Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T220000 LOCATION:515 Main Street END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR