Joe Nichols, perhaps best known for the song “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” will be the headliner.

Morgan Myles, who placed third on “The Voice” in 2022, will also sing. She is a friend of Fort Dodge native Dani Huss. Dani Huss, and her mother, Dee Huss, flew to Los Angeles to watch Myles in the semi final round of “The Voice.”

The opening act will be Tyler Richton & The High Bank Boys, a band based in Deep River.

Nichols, Myles and Tyler Richton & The High Bank Boys will fill downtown with their distinctive country music sounds from a stage at Central Avenue and Ninth Street.

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Morgan Myles will perform at Downtown Country Jam on Sept. 28.

“It’s going to be a great event,” said Craig Schlienz, a member of the Shellabration Inc. Board of Directors that organizes the concert.

Last year, the annual Downtown Country Jam headlined by Josh Turner drew a record crowd of 4,553 people.

Schlienz said the board signed Nichols with the belief that “this would be another home run for a Downtown Country Jam headliner.”

Tickets for the concert go on sale at 7 p.m. today on Ticketweb.com.

Beginning on Aug. 3, tickets will also be available at Hy-Vee, 115 S. 29th St., and other local businesses to be announced.

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Tyler Richton & The High Bank Boys will perform at Downtown Country Jam on Sept. 28.

Tickets will initially cost $40, rising to $45 on Sept. 14. Any unsold tickets will cost $50 at the gate.

Joe Nichols

Nichols has 18 Top 40 hits and received the Top New Male Vocalist Award from the Academy of Country Music.

His musical career started when he was 19 playing in a group called The Rodeo Band. His first album “Joe Nichols” was released in 1996. His second album, “Man With a Memory” released in 2002 included the hit single “The Impossible” which soared to No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart.

The next single from that album — “Brokenheartsville” — hit No. 1 on the charts.

His run of hits since then includes “She Only Smokes When She Drinks,” “Cool to be a Fool,” “If Nobody Believed In You,” “What’s a Guy Gotta Do,” “Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off,” “Size Matters (Someday),” “I’ll Wait for You,” ” Another Side of You,” “It Ain’t No Crime,” “Believers,” “Gimme That Girl,” “The Shape I’m In,” “Take It Off,” “Sunny and 75,” “Yeah,” and “Hard To be Cool.”

Morgan Myles

“Morgan gained this Fort Dodge following through Dani Huss,” Schlienz said.

He said that Huss moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and while living there became friends with Myles before her music career started to take off.

He said Huss has since moved to Des Moines, but remained close to Myles.

Myles went on ‘The Voice” in 2022 and received what Schlienz called a “four chair turn” from the judges during her initial audition.

Her songs include “Vertigo,” “Holy Water,” “Acapella,” “Whiskey Dreaming,” “Sanctuary,” “Two Words, One Finger,” and “Reap.”

“Having her in our lineup will make this year’s Downtown Country Jam really powerful,” said Jim Reed, the president of Shellabration Inc.

Tyler Richton & The High Bank Boys

This group performed in the Laramar Ballroom on April 5..

Reed said the group plays a combination of original music while also covering popular bands and singers.

If you go:

What: Downtown Country Jam

Where: Central Avenue and Ninth Street

When: Sept. 28

Concert lineup

5:30 p.m. — Tyler Richton & The High Bank Boys

6:45 p.m. — Morgan Myles

8:30 p.m. — Joe Nichols

Ticket Information

Tickets go on sale at 7 p.m. today at ticketweb.com.

Beginning Aug. 3, tickets will be on sale at Hy-Vee, 115 S. 29th St., and other retailers to be named later.

Tickets cost $40 until Sept 13

Tickets cost $45 beginning Sept. 14

Any remaining tickets will sold at the gate for $50

Children age 12 and younger admitted free