

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Grammy Nominated Jerry Salley - FREE In Concert!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 18 Jan, 2026 at 08:30 am – Sun, 18 Jan, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Come and hear singer/songwriter Jerry Salley, who has written dozens of #1 Hits, including those made famous by the likes of Brad Paisley, Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Dolly Parton and more! And highlighting his own vocal talent, Jerry has been featured as a soloist on the Grand Ole Oprey!

Come &amp; enjoy these two FREE concerts (at 8:30 &amp; 10:30am), with complimentary refreshments to be served in our Fellowship Hospitality Cafe beginning at 9:30am!

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✞✞✞ JERRY SALLEY BIO ✞✞✞

Referred to by Billboard Magazine as "One of Music Row's greatest veteran tunesmiths," Jerry Salley has had an exceptionally successful, multi award-winning songwriting career.  An Ohio native, his home state honored his long, illustrious career in 2024 by inducting him into the Ohio Country Music Hall of Fame. Nominated in 2019 for the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Salley is the 2018 &amp; 2019 IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Songwriter of the Year and was named the 2003 SESAC Country Music Songwriter of the Year. Salley has had over 580 different songs recorded and his songs have sold in excess of 19 million records worldwide.  Writing and singing in Nashville since 1982, he has written multiple hits in country, bluegrass, and gospel music and may well be the most successful songwriter to have earned equal recognition from all three genres of music. Jerry was a 2020 Grammy nominated producer in the Gospel Roots category for producing the multi-artist project, Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout, on Billy Blue Records.  He also produced the popular Dolly Parton single, a new version of the old Gospel Hymn, “In The Sweet By And By”, released as part of the “Country Faith Bluegrass” project in 2021, which received two 2022 IBMA Awards (“Gospel Recording of the Year” and “Collaborative Recording of the Year”), and the 2022 Dove Award for “Bluegrass/Country/Roots Song of the Year”.  He currently has a popular song, “It Takes A Woman”, on Chris Stapleton’s latest album, “Higher”.  Stapleton’s recording of this song won the 2025 Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance. 
From Sir Elton John's only chart single to appear on the Billboard Country Chart ("Where We Both Say Goodbye" - duet with Australian artist Catherine Britt) to a Gospel song so popular it has been included in multiple church hymnals ("His Strength Is Perfect"); from songs recorded by country music legends Loretta Lynn and The Oak Ridge Boys to some of today's biggest country stars like Chris Stapleton, Reba McEntire, and Brad Paisley, Jerry's long list of accomplishments speaks for itself.

Born in the small southern Ohio town of Chillicothe, he signed with Performing Rights Organization SESAC at eighteen years old.  After earning a degree from Ohio University in 1982, Salley moved to Nashville and landed a job in the Country Music USA cast at Opryland theme park, a job that would become a springboard for what was to come.

Jerry’s country music successes began in the late 1980s when the group Wild Rose recorded “Breakin’ New Ground”.  Since then, countless country music stars have recorded his songs, including Reba McEntire ("I'm Gonna Take That Mountain",  “Close To Crazy”), John Anderson ("I Fell In The Water"), Wade Hayes ("How Do You Sleep At Night") , Chris Stapleton (“Outlaw State Of Mind” on the Grammy award winning quadruple-platinum album Traveller), Toby Keith, Sara Evans, Patty Loveless, Joe Nichols, Darryl Worley, Travis Tritt, Tracy Lawrence, Neal McCoy, Mark Chesnutt and many, many more.  Internationally, he has penned no less than nine #1 Country hits in Australia.  

As part of a trio with friends Larry Cordle and Carl Jackson, Jerry recorded the song "You're Running Wild" on the Louvin Brothers Tribute on Universal South Records. Entitled Livin', Lovin', Losin' - Songs of the Louvin Brothers, the album features numerous country music stars singing songs made famous by the legendary duo. The project won the 2003 Grammy for Country Album of the Year.

In the bluegrass genre, Jerry was named the 2018 and 2019 IBMA Songwriter of the Year and has had hundreds of songs, including numerous chart-toppers, recorded.  He was thrilled to have co-written three songs on The SteelDrivers Grammy award winning album, The Muscle Shoals Recordings (“A Long Way Down”, “The River Runs Red”, “6 Feet Away”), and a song on the Del McCoury Band Grammy winning album The Streets of Baltimore (“The Butler Brothers”).  Other bluegrass groups who have recorded Jerry’s songs include The Osborne Brothers, Doyle Lawson &amp; Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Lonesome River Band, Balsam Range, Seldom Scene, Flatt Lonesome, IIIrd Tyme Out, Larry Stevenson, Donna Ulisse, Irene Kelley and many others.  Salley is a multiple IBMA Song of the Year nominee, and his song “All Dressed Up”, recorded by Joe Mullin and The Radio Ramblers, won the IBMA Gospel Recorded Song Of The Year award in 2016.  Jerry is an eight-time IBMA Award winner, which includes receiving the 2006 IBMA Album of the Year award for his contribution (as an artist) to the Celebration Of Life album.  In 2024, he co-wrote and recorded the #1 Bluegrass Gospel song, “Blue Collar Gospel”, as an artist collaboration with the legendary Oak Ridge Boys.  This would be the last song that the original members (Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden &amp; Richard Sterban) would ever record together.

He is an eight-time Dove Award nominee in the country, bluegrass, and southern gospel categories and won a prestigious Dove for the 1990 Inspirational Song of the Year "His Strength Is Perfect", recorded by and co-written with Steven Curtis Chapman. “His Strength Is Perfect” has been recorded more than 200 times, and was included in the Baptist Hymnal in 2009.  Prior to that, the song had been included in the Celebration Life Hymnal, arguably the largest selling non-denominational Hymnal in the world.  As stated above, Salley won his second Dove Award in 2022 for producing and performing on the Dolly Parton recording of “In The Sweet By And By” for “Bluegrass/Country/Roots Song of the Year”.  Salley has written nine #1 Gospel hits, multiple #2 Gospel hits and over a dozen other top ten and top twenty gospel songs.  Gospel groups that have recorded Jerry’s songs include Steven Curtis Chapman, CeCe Winans, Tribute Quartet, Karen Peck &amp; New River, The Talleys, The McKameys, Lordsong, Ernie Haase &amp; Signature Sound, and many more.

As an artist, Jerry has performed worldwide and has had the honor of performing as a soloist many times on the world-famous Grand Ole Opry.  He has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, Regis and Kathy Lee, and NBC'S Today Show, where he was honored to sing as background vocalist for the legendary Linda Ronstadt.  

In 2007, Jerry released his first solo project, New Songs, Old Friends, on the Mountain Home Record Label. A Bluegrass CD of all new songs written by Jerry, the project includes guest vocalists The Oak Ridge Boys, Rhonda Vincent, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs &amp; Sharon White, Darryl Worley, Del McCoury, Doyle Lawson, Sonya Isaacs, Alecia Nugent, Jamie Johnson, Lisa Shaffer and buddies Carl Jackson and Larry Cordle. The project was one of the final nominees for the 2007 IBMA "Recorded Event of the Year".  Since then, he has released Showing My Age (2012),  Gospel From My Grassroots (2015), Front Porch Philosophy (2017), All God’s Children Sing (2019), Bridges And Backroads (2020), and A Very Jerry Family Christmas (2021). In 2024, Salley released, The Songwriter, his most personal collection of songs to date as each song on the project was written solely by Jerry. 

His most recent project, The Believer, released in 2026, is an all-Gospel album that includes an inspirational message in each of the 12 songs.  An expression of Salley’s faith, these songs represent his personal convictions, and strong belief in the word of God.  Wanting to reach both believers and non-believers with his music, these songs communicate love, hope and redemption to everyone.   

Although Salley focuses on songwriting, as noted above he is a 2020 Grammy nominated producer in the Gospel Roots category, having produced the award winning, multi-artist Bluegrass Gospel project “Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout” on Billy Blue Records.  He is in high demand as a producer for classic country, bluegrass, Americana, and gospel artists. He also loves sharing his music with his fans, performing approximately 80 shows a year throughout the country.  

Multi-Grammy award winning producer, musician and songwriter, Carl Jackson says of Jerry:  "Jerry is not only a friend, in the truest sense of the word, he is also a songwriter's songwriter - an artist that completely understands the idea of "painting a picture" using the marriage of lyric and rhyme; someone that fully grasps the art of crafting a song, rather than throwing words against the page. His paintbrush is a pen, his canvas a legal pad, and his goal always another masterpiece."
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Rotonda West
- **state**: FL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 140 Rotonda Blvd West, Rotonda, FL, United States, Florida 33947
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- **full address**: 140 Rotonda Blvd West, Rotonda, FL, United States, Florida 33947, 140 Rotonda Blvd W, Rotonda West, FL 33947-2156, United States

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