Clay Walker heads to The Carolina Opry on March 20

The Texas country singer has booked a Saturday night at the 2,200-seat Myrtle Beach theater, with a new Christmas album out and a holiday tour about to begin.

There's a particular kind of spring Saturday on the Grand Strand, before the summer crowds show up, when the people filling the seats are mostly locals and the regulars who drive in every year. Clay Walker has picked one of those for his next visit.

Clay Walker plays The Carolina Opry on Saturday, March 20, 2027. Doors are at 6pm and the show starts at 7pm. Tickets are available through The Carolina Opry's concerts page. The date was announced Oct. 28, which gives fans more than four months to plan around it, and in a 2,200-seat room that's both a luxury and a warning. Good seats for a country name this familiar don't stay open forever.

Walker has been busy. In January he launched his Doin' What I Love Tour, which opened Jan. 23 in Tulsa, and radio coverage at the time described it as a run across the U.S. and Canada. Then the holidays took over. He's just released *A Clay Walker Family Christmas*, which arrived Nov. 6 on Maven Records on CD, colored vinyl and digital, led by the single "All Wrapped Up in You."

The album has its own tour. A Clay Walker Family Christmas Tour opens Nov. 27 in Warren, Ohio, and runs through the season. By the time he gets to Myrtle Beach in March, the tinsel will be packed away and the set list will be back to the songs that made his name, plus whatever he's been working on since. A release from his team says he's in the studio on multiple new projects, so a spring show could well bring a preview or two.

By the time he gets to Myrtle Beach in March, the tinsel will be packed away.

The Carolina Opry is the right room for him. It's built for exactly this: a big, comfortable theater where a country singer can stand at the front of the stage and talk to an audience that came to listen. A 7pm start suits that crowd too. There's time for an early dinner on Kings Highway beforehand and you're home before the late-night traffic.

It also helps that Walker isn't coming in cold. He'll have spent most of the past year on the road, first headlining and then with the Christmas run, which usually means a band that's tight and a singer who's comfortable on stage. For fans who've followed him since the '90s, a 2,200-seat theater is a far more personal setting than an amphitheater or fairground.

If March sounds a long way off, remember who's playing and what kind of room it is. The Opry's own site is the place to buy, and buying early gets you better seats.

The Grand Strand has plenty of shows in high season. Ones like this, on an easy spring night, are worth more than they look on the calendar.

Sources: Clay Walker unveils 2026 Doin' What I Love Tour – The Music Universe (themusicuniverse.com); Clay Walker announces 29-date tour across U.S. and Canada starting Jan. 23 – Country 103.7 (country1037fm.com); A Clay Walker Family Christmas – The Music Universe (themusicuniverse.com); A Clay Walker Family Christmas Tour Tickets On Sale July 17 – 117 Group (117group.com); Clay Walker announces 2026 Family Christmas Tour – RTTNews (rttnews.com); Clay Walker – 117 Group (117group.com); The Carolina Opry – Concerts (thecarolinaopry.com)