Country legend Pam Tillis performing in Havre

After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Havre Police Protective Association is bringing a country music icon back to Havre.

Pam Tillis is performing at the fundraising concert, her second performance for the Police Protective Association. She also played at the 2014 fundraiser, after playing a New Year's Eve concert at Northern Winz Casino in 2010.

Tillis will play Thursday at Montana State University-Northern's Armory Gymnasium, with the show starting at 7 p.m., with special guests Kelley Sinclair and Matt Brua.

The daughter of country music legend Mel Tillis, Pam Tillis made her Grand Ole Opry debut at age 8 and began writing music and performing in her own bands.

Her first album was released in 1983, but it was her second album, 1991's "Put Yourself in My Place," that established her as a major artist on her own and included top singles including her first Top 40 Hot Country Songs piece, "Don't Tell Me What to Do." She has since recorded multiple albums, acted in television shows and on Broadway and modeled in magazines. She has won Country Music Awards entries three times, including 1994's Female Vocalist Of The Year Award, and was nominated multiple times for Grammy's Best Female Country Vocal Performance, in 1993 for "Maybe It Was Memphis, in 1996 for "Mi Vida Loca" and in 1998 for "All The Good Ones Are Gone."

She is a nine-time Academy of Country Music Award nominee, a two-time Grammy award winner and six-time Grammy nominee, and an American Music Award's nominee. She won an International Bluegrass Music Association award in 2004 for Recorded Event Of The Year on "Livin' Lovin' Losin'" and most recently a 2012 IBMA Song Of The Year nomination for co-writing Dale Ann Bradley's "Somewhere South Of Crazy."

The concert is an annual fundraiser for the Police Protective Association's programs for youth in area. Past fundraisers have paid for activities such as Shop with a Cop, buying Angel Tree gifts, providing scholarships and buying tickets to events to support youth organizations.

The doors at the Armory Gymnasium open Thursday at 6 p.m. with the show starting at 7 p.m.

Tickets, which are $42, are available at Havre Police Department and Norman's Ranch and Sportswear, and online at https://406tix.com .