About this Event
Ty Herndon has lived a life and career of extreme highs and lows and celebrated a critical milestone in country music as his record-breaking debut single “What Mattered Most” turned thirty in 2025. Between 1995 and 2002, Herndon charted 17 singles, including his three number ones and seventeen top 10 hits, such as “I Want My Goodbye Back,” “Loved Too Much,” “A Man Holdin' On (To a Woman Lettin' Go)” and “Hands of a Working Man.” He topped the charts in 1996 with the single “Living in a Moment” and again in 1998 with “It Must Be Love.”
In 2014, Ty made country music history when he became the first major male artist to come out as gay. In the following years, he founded the Concert For Love + Acceptance, as well as his own Foundation For Love + Acceptance, to provide support for mental health and recovery services and a more inclusive country music landscape for artists and fans alike. He released two critically acclaimed albums, House On Fire and Got It Covered.
Ty began a triumphant comeback in 2020 with the release of “Orphans of God,” a duet with Kristin Chenoweth that peaked at number one on the iTunes charts. That was quickly followed by the release of JACOB and JACOB (Deluxe Edition), for the first time bringing his full journey from darkness to light and back again to his music. The album touched on highly personal themes ranging from addiction, recovery, and mental fitness to lost love, self-discovery and personal freedom. It spawned the country radio hits “Till You Get There” and “Dents on a Chevy,” a duet with Terri Clark that spent 7 weeks atop the independent country radio charts, becoming the number one independent country single of 2023.
In 2025, he released the first of a double album career retrospective entitled THIRTY, featuring guest collaborators on some of his biggest hits and fan favorites from more than three decades in the spotlight and on the charts. That was followed by the release of the acclaimed Contemporary Christian Music classic, "Testify To Love," recorded originally by Avalon and re-recorded by Ty alongside former Avalon members Michael Passons and Melissa Greene. The single became a viral sensation rocketing to the top of the iTunes Christian Songs chart, hitting the Billboard Top 5, and sparking a global conversation about love and acceptance. It's the first single from the forthcoming re-release of his 2010 album Journey On, remastered after nearly two decades with four additional tracks.
Ty's memoir, “What Mattered Most,” was released on March 31, 2026 and is available everywhere now.
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Join us for dinner and drinks! The Sapphire Room features a full dinner and bar menu. The Sapphire Room is all-ages and family friendly. Every person that enters must have a ticket. No babes in arms.
We make every effort to honor the table and seats selected at the time of purchase. However, due to the intimate nature of The Sapphire Room and our table-style seating, The Sapphire Room reserves the right, in rare circumstances, to move a reservation to an equivalent or upgraded table within the same seating section purchased.
To provide the best experience for our guests, we avoid seating unrelated parties together at the same table. If you select a table with more seats than the size of your party, there is a possibility that your reservation may be moved to a table that more appropriately accommodates your party size. Any such move will remain within the General or Preferred section originally selected and will be to a table of equal or greater price value. Preferred seating will not be downgraded to General seating.
Please note that general seats may have a partially obstructed view. Table locations may vary slightly from positions shown on the seating map.
With the purchase of a ticket, Sapphire guests are eligible for The Riverside Hotel's "Sapphire Getaway" for $179 + tax. This rate is available for the night of the Sapphire Room show and includes a standard hotel room (double occupancy) and breakfast for two the following morning. To reserve, please call the Riverside Hotel front desk at 208-343-1871. The Sapphire Getaway rate is subject to availability and blackout dates. It will not be available for every show.
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The Sapphire Room at The Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd, Boise, United States
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