Launceston's Princess Theatre is set to be filled with the wholesome tunes of the Music City on Saturday.
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Nashville Live will be a night of singing and storytelling, where country artists will be performing a number of classics from the likes of Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson.
The tour group is primarily made up of country artists from the UK, with Atlanta-native Lars Pluto being the sole American.
Pluto was raised in a family of Southern Baptist Gospel bluegrass performers, traversing America's greatest country capitals around Kentucky, Tennessee and living in almost all of the southern states.
"I was pretty much raised on a tour bus driving around the South of America," Pluto said.
"Country music for me is about as natural as breathing - this stuff has been in my blood and in my bones from the moment I first stepped foot on this earth.
"It's amazing to get to do a show like this that my family would be so proud of."
The show will be akin to the Grand Ole Opry show performed in Nashville, Tennessee.
"We recreate that format and we use that format to perform 44 of the greatest country music songs of all time," Pluto said.
"What I really appreciate about it, because I'm a country music singer myself, is I don't have to play a particular role.
"It's nice that several of us are country music artists in our own rights so it's great to be a country music artist getting to sing these songs without having to pretend that you're someone else."
Pluto said the American concept of the 'family circle', where a family grows and tightens as members of the family are born or pass away, was key to the intimate nature of country music.
"That's an important message in country music you might not feel in hip hop or rock 'n' roll and that sense of family and tradition and love and it's been an amazing thing to share with my cast members," he said.
"The feeling they get, experiencing it for the first time has been something I've really enjoyed about this tour."
Pluto noted one of his favourite aspects of the show was the jingle commercial interludes that the artists perform to hearken back to the 1950s or 60s.
"They're really quite humorous we use actual radio jingles and actual commercials and whatnot from the era," he said.
For Pluto, being part of this tour has been incredibly personal, given his folk-filled past.
"For me, it's just a walk down my own memory lane," he said.
"Sometimes a johnny cash tune will come on and immediately I'm transported to being five years old in the back of my grandfather's pickup truck."
Nashville Live will be at Launceston's Princess Theatre Saturday, March 2 at 7.30pm.
Tickets can be purchased from www.theatrenorth.com.au