Ricky Atkinson & Compassion

Hi Friends!
Its time for another new month!

And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, was August... it's really amazing how time flies, I guess our parents were right when they told us it speeds up as you get older!
I have no idea where that month went, but its history, and now we start to cool off some? :)

August was very busy for me, solo, as well as RAC, we had 3 group dates! All 3 RAC dates were tremendous, and we look forward to several more throughout the remainder of the year! Great solo dates in KY, GA and TN, as well as an awesome weekend in LA! 3 of the best services I've been in, in a long time out there with the good Cajun people! Looking forward to going back!
 
September will be crazy travels as well!  With solo dates in NC, TN, KY, SC and NC, as well as huge RAC EVENT in Sevierville, TN, Monday, Labor Day, Sept 6, 2010... at Tony Gores BBQ and Grill, Dinner on the Ground Concert Series!! Starts at 1PM and we hope to see you all there for the food fun and fellowship! Gonna be a great day!! Might even get old TG up to sing a few with us!!

ALSO, I will be doing a solo showcase, at the NQC Showcase Spectacular on Tuesday Sept, 14th, 2010, at The Kentucky Fair and Expo Center, Hall A-B.
National Quartet Convention will run all week, Monday Sept 13, thru Saturday Sept 18, but I will be singing only Tuesday afternoon.

OH yeah, ANOTHER RAC EVENT, Monday night Sept 20th, 2010, at Greg's home church, First Baptist Church, East Campus, Marshville, NC  that's a 6:45PM start!
Gonna be fun!

The new RAC 10th Anniversary LIVE in Pigeon Forge, TN DVD is now available!!! Order now online at the web store!

RAC is now FINISHED with the WILBURN TRIBUTE cd... bringing back a lot of the great old Wilburn hit songs... everyone will DEF enjoy this one and want to add this to your SGM collection!! We are very excited to be honoring Jackie and Elaine for all their years of service to the Lord in southern gospel music... pray that we do a good job for them!  It's gonna be great!! WE WILL have it on the product table by NQC in September!! In fact, I'm picking up pre-releases this weekend, and we will debut a lot of this CD at TG BBQ n Grill, this coming MONDAY!
I will have it up on the website in a week or so, so watch for a NEWSBLAST on the NEW CD!

RAC IS NOW ON I-TUNES, just go to ITunes and search Ricky Atkinson, or Ricky Atkinson & Compassion and you will find our latest complete project available NOW!!
We will be adding more and more of our music, but for now at least we finally are catching up with the times. HAHA!

New pictures for the month , 2 NEW emails of the month, NEW tour dates updated so go check out the website to see the updates....

NEWSBLAST!!   I will be hosting as well as singing with RAC at a huge Christmas event coming up the weekend of Dec 10-12, 2010!

Resting Place Music, and Lamp Music Group are sponsoring this event and we are bringing to Pigeon Forge, TN some of the best artist in SGM!

Ricky Atkinson and Compassion, The David Hill Trio, Spoken 4, Logan Smith, Chronicle, The Patriot Qt, The Georgians Qt, Higher Hope, VictorySong, and others....Here's a quick run down on the highlights of some of what we have planned!!

Friday Dec 10:

Check in hotel, 3-6PM
(you will be staying at the Grand Hotel!)
Meet and greet with the groups, 7-10PM
(This will be a casual fun time, while artist are singing on stage, there will be free food, and
door prizes and you can meet all the artist, eat, drink sodas and coffee, and this should be fun...
.... Christian Karaoke! Bring your own soundtracks and you can sing on stage as everyone fellowships around!)

Saturday Dec 11:

Devotions with Dr Steve Ward and continental breakfast, 9:00AM
(You won't want to miss our speaker, Dr. Ward from Valdosta, GA along with some more great singing from some of our artist!)
Lunch Buffet at Tony Gore's BBQ and Grill, 11:30AM or 12:30 PM
(This is optional and cost extra over the event price, but its TonyGore's Extravaganza Buffet AND RAC concert while you eat, and we will also be serving your tables along with other artist!)
Comedy Barn, 5PM
Southern Gospel and Christmas Showcase, 7PM
(featuring all of our artist on both record companies' labels!)

Sunday, Dec 12:

Devotions with David Hill, 9:00AM
(More great singing and speaking with David Hill, formerly of Gold City, Nelons, and currently
preaching and singing with his own group, The David Hill Trio!)
Group photo shoot, 10:30 AM
Checkout at 11AM

PRICING:
2 people - $390.00 (that's $195.00 each, based on 2 to the room)
3 people - $495.00 (that's $165.00 each)
4 people - $560.00 (that's $140.00 each)

 * * *ALSO, if you want to do lunch on Saturday at Tony Gore's
BBQ and Grill Lunch Buffet with the groups, its $19.95 per person, that includes
Tony's extravaganza BUFFET, service by artist, and also featuring RAC concert too!!
(If you'd rather go someplace else and do your own lunch, that's fine too, just be back at the hotel in time to get to the Comedy Barn at 5:00PM!!)
This is the only charge other than your event pricing, everything else is free!!

The complete listing and itinerary is downloadable on the RAC website, or you can call us
at (229) 776-7120 or (229) 886-8043, OR email us at rickncompassion@aol.com

We need to sign up fast, the flyers took longer than expected to print, so we need to know
who is coming ASAP!!
FOR PASTORS WHO  BRINGS A CHURCH GROUP, AND SIGN UP 10 ROOMS, ( that's 20 people)
 we will bring he and his wife along absolutely FREE!!  Call me for more info on this!!

Until next month,
Blessings to you all,
Ricky Atkinson
RAC