Name: Scotty McCreery
Start: 2025-02-20T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 1111 N McMullen Booth Rd, Clearwater, FL, United States, Florida 33759

Scotty McCreery returns to Ruth Eckerd Hall for the first time since 2014! Scotty McCreery has been a household name for nearly half his life, ever since making history in 2011 as both the first country artist and the youngest male artist of any genre to debut his first studio album, the Platinum-certified Clear as Day, at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. The 31-year-old has sold more than four million albums and achieved six No.1 hits: the recent Cab in a Solo, the RIAA Platinum-certified Damn Strait, the RIAA Gold certified You Time, the RIAA Gold certified In Between, the RIAA Platinum certified This is It, and the RIAA Triple Platinum certified Five More Minutes.
The North Carolina native has earned one Triple Platinum, five Platinum, and four Gold singles; one Platinum and two Gold albums; won the 10th season of American Idol in 2011 at age 17; was named the ACM New Artist of the Year in 2011; won the CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video of the Year (The Trouble with Girls) in 2012; and BMI Awards for writing One of the Top 50 Country Songs of the Year five times (in 2015 for See You Tonight, in 2018 for Five More Minutes, in 2019 for This is It, in 2021 for In Between, and in 2022 for You Time).
His song Five More Minutes inspired two popular holiday movies which aired on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Network, Five More Minutes in 2021 and Five More Minutes: Moments Like These in 2022. He was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry by Josh Turner and Randy Travis, after being invited by Garth Brooks. Don’t miss Scotty McCreery’s return to Ruth Eckerd Hall for the first time in 10 years!