Let's celebrate our very own Jim Stafford's 80th Birthday! Join us for a celebration show also featuring Kathy Black, Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at the Historic Ritz Theatre. Doors will open at 6PM and the show will start at 7PM, cake will be served during intermission.

Jim Stafford wrote and recorded his first chart making song, The Swamp Witch in 1974. He followed with a gold single, Spiders and Snakes, which stayed on the American pop charts for 26 weeks. The hist just kept coming and included My Girl, Bill, Wildwood Weed, and the wonderfully satirical Cow Patti, written for the Clint Eastwood movie, Any Which Way You Can, in which Jim Appeared.

Jim launched his television career with The Jim Stafford Show on ABC in 1975, Jim continued to do numerous television appearances in 1988 & 189, Jim was a regular performer and head writer for the the Emmy nominated Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

Jim received a gold record for his work in the Disney movie The Fox and The Hound. Jim's first love has always been live performances. This brought him to Branson, Missouri, where he bought a theater and entertained visitors for 24 years.

During his show Jim combines hysterical comedy with masterful performances on the classical guitar as well as with heart warming stories of the human spirit.