Michael Ray

When country music goes Trump: Should artists appeal to the base, or try to grow it?

Chris Graham

It was a run-of-the-mill country music concert that, for an uncomfortable moment, went political, when Michael Ray, one of the opening acts for headliner Lee Brice last night at the Ting Pavilion in Charlottesville, used Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” to come to the stage.