Here is what you need to know about Penn’s Peak before you move on tickets: it is a mountaintop room above Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, and the first time you walk into it for a show, you will immediately start planning your next trip. Travis Tritt plays there on Thursday, September 17 — this is exactly the kind of booking that room deserves.
Tritt has been one of country music’s most durable live acts since “Country Club” put him on the map in 1990. Two Grammy Awards, four CMA Awards, Grand Ole Opry membership since 1992, and five number-one country hits — “Help Me Hold On,” “Anymore,” “Can I Trust You with My Heart,” “Foolish Pride,” and “Best of Intentions” — that is a catalog that holds up across three decades. Recent setlists show he is not coasting: expect “The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’,” “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares),” “It’s a Great Day to Be Alive,” his current single “Smoke in a Bar,” and enough hits to fill a good 90 minutes.
Penn’s Peak holds 1,800 and earns every one of them. Spacious dance floor, high ceilings, a concert bar, and Roadies — a full-service restaurant on site — mean you can make a real evening of it before the show. The mountaintop setting above Jim Thorpe gives the whole thing a destination feel that you do not get at a standard club show. Whether you are heading down from the Hudson Valley or making a longer run from the Capital Region, budget some time for Jim Thorpe itself — it rewards the extra hour.
Show time is 8:00 PM. Tickets are on sale now.