The Johnnie High's Country Music Revue is a weekly variety show held at the Arlington Music Hall in Arlington, Texas

Arlington, Texas

Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...

 near the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. It helps to showcase local talent; Old or young. It was created by Johnnie High

Johnnie High

Johnnie High was a music impresario, starmaker, and performer of Texas who established Johnnie High's Country Music Revue, a live Saturday night show, in 1974 in Grapevine, Texas.-Early life:...

, a singer, musician, songwriter and businessman. The Revue began in 1974. High had purchased a former movie theater in 1994 and turned into the Arlington Music Hall as the permanent place for the weekly country music show.

The revue has been a success for thirty-one years. It features a seven member cast, a band and back-up singers. It introduces at least 20 or 25 different performers. The show opens up every Friday and Saturday. Country music fans from all over the world have gone to the revue to see amazing talent.

The show also has different themes. The show might open up with a 1950s theme or a Big Band

Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...

 theme. The show has a rotating talent roster that hold open auditions three times a year.

Over the years, Johnnie High's Country Music Revue has opened the door for many famous people such as LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn Rimes

LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...

, Lee Ann Womack

Lee Ann Womack

Lee Ann Womack is an American country music singer and songwriter, who is best known for her old fashioned-styled country music songs that often discuss subjects such as cheating and lost love....

, Gary Morris

Gary Morris

Gary Gwyn Morris is an American country music artist who charted a string of countrypolitan-styled hit songs throughout the 1980s....

, Box Car Willie, Wanda Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...

, Kitty Wells

Kitty Wells

Ellen Muriel Deason , known professionally as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star...

, Tommy Cash

Tommy Cash

Tommy Cash, , is a singer-songwriter and younger brother of Johnny Cash.-Biography:Cash was born in Dyess, Arkansas, youngest of four sons and three daughters of Ray and Carrie Cash, and eight years after his brother, Johnny Cash. He formed his first band in high school. After high school...

and many others. His granddaughter, Ashley Smith, is a regular performer on the show and helps play co-host.

They hold shows such as Fabulous 50s shows, Legends shows, Incredible Kids, New Faces shows and gospel concerts.

The revue is a four-time winner of the Live Country Music Show of the Year by the National Organization of Country Music Associations.