Neal McCoy brings the '90s country hits to EPIC Event Center Thursday

The singer behind "No Doubt About It" and "Wink" plays Ashwaubenon's stadium-district room on Nov. 12, with former cop turned country singer Frank Ray opening.

Some country songs never really leave the jukebox. Play the opening of "Wink" in a Fox Valley supper club and somebody at the bar will be singing the chorus before the second verse. On Thursday, Nov. 12, the man who sang it is in town himself.

Neal McCoy plays EPIC Event Center in Green Bay on Thursday, Nov. 12, with a 7 p.m. start. Frank Ray opens. Tickets are sold through the venue at epicgreenbay.com. The room holds about 2,100, so it's a big night that still feels close.

If you came up on country radio in the '90s, you know McCoy's catalog even if you don't know you know it. "No Doubt About It," released at the end of 1993, became his first No. 1 country hit) early in 1994 and was the breakthrough he needed. Its follow-up, "Wink,") came out that spring and spent four weeks at the top of Billboard's country chart. It even crossed over to the Hot 100. Both songs came from the album *No Doubt About It*, made with producer Barry Beckett, and AllMusic credits that record with giving McCoy his first two chart-toppers back to back.

That's the setlist backbone, but McCoy's reputation on the road rests on more than the hits. Promoters keep booking him for a high-energy show. That's the phrase that follows him from Sturgis to the casino circuit, and it's why a weeknight date is still worth it. Thursday in Green Bay is one stop on a run that heads to Dallas, Fort Worth, Norman and Las Vegas over the next month.

Frank Ray, the opener, has a story you don't hear often. Born Frank Gomez, he spent about ten years as a police officer in Las Cruces, New Mexico, playing country songs in local spots at night, before going into music full time. Since then he has opened for Old Dominion and charted songs in the Texas country top 10. He has also become a vocal advocate for officer mental health, serving as an ambassador for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Green Bay has seen that side of him already: in 2023 he visited the Green Bay Police Department to talk about that cause. He's a short-set opener worth getting in early for.

The pairing has some history, too. Ray was booked alongside McCoy for a Corn Palace show in Mitchell, S.D. in April 2025, so this isn't two strangers sharing a poster.

As for the room: EPIC Event Center sits at 2351 Holmgren Way in the stadium district, in the old Gordmans store in Ashwaubenon. It opened as a concert venue in April 2021. In the years since, it has hosted touring rock and country acts, with comedy nights in between. It's a few minutes from Lambeau, so plan around any traffic on Holmgren and give yourself time to park.

A weeknight date with a catalog this deep is easy to talk yourself into.

It's a Thursday, and Friday morning will come early. But a catalog this familiar, sung by the guy who made it, doesn't come through the Fox Valley every week. Go for "Wink" and stay for whatever he does after it.

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