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CAT Country Jingle Jam announces performers for State Theatre show

Kassie Ashton
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Singer Kassie Ashton will headline the Cat Country Jingle Jam on Nov. 14.

EASTON, Pa. — A singer who has had three songs hit the Country Airplay chart will headline radio station WCTO-FM’s Jingle Jam at Easton’s State Theatre in November, it has been announced.

Also performing will be a singer who hit the Top 40 on the Country Airplay chart last year, another who has had 12 songs hit the Top 20 on the Canadian Country chart and last year also hit the Top 40 on the U.S. Country Airplay chart singing with Michael Ray, and another whose debut single hit No. 56 on in 2023.

Performers Kassi Ashton, Kelsey Hart, Meghan Patrick and Annie Bosko will be the lineup for Cat Country 96 Jingle Jam, which traditionally night for up-and-coming country acts performing acoustic music.

The show will be at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14. Tickets, at $25, are available from the State Theater website, or the box office at 453 Northampton St., Easton.
State Theatre news release

The show will be at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14. Tickets, at $25, are available from the State Theater website, or the box office at 453 Northampton St., Easton.

Ashton has had three songs hit the Country Airplay chart, starting with "Dates in Pickup Trucks," which peaked at No. 57 in 2022.

She followed that with "Drive You Out of My Mind," which hit No. 42 in 2023, and, most recently, "Called Crazy" in May peaked at 32.

Ashton's debut studio album, "Made from the Dirt," will be released on Friday, Sept. 20.

With a little bit of rock, a lot of soul, and a throwback R&B groove, Ashton has been chosen to Ones to Watch lists by Huffington Post and The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville.

She spent 2019 as an opening act on Maren Morris’s world tour and in 2018, she was featured on Keith Urban’s CMA Album of the Year-nominated LP, "Graffiti U."

Kelsey Hart
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Kelsey Hart

Other performers

Hart hit the Top 40 on the Country Airplay chart last year with "Life with You." His debut studio album of the same name was released in May.

Hart made his Grand Ole Opry debut on June 28.

Patrick has had 12 songs hit the Top 20 in her native Canadian Country chart. Last year, she hit the Top 40 on the U.S. Country Airplay chart singing on Michael Ray's "Spirits and Demons."

She released her U.S. debut album "Heart on My Glass" in 2021, and was a back-to-back Canadian Country Music Association Female Artist of the Year.

Annie Bosko
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Meghan Patrick (left) and (right) Annie Bosko.

Bosko's debut single, "Neon Baby," hit No. 56 on Country Airplay chart in 2023, and her self-titled debut album was released Jan. 5.

Her style is anchored deep in the organic twang of country music's 1990s golden era.