Capable, candid, compelling and convincing are all appropriate terms to describe the unique brand of showmanship that has ranked Clyde Foley Cummins among the most reliable crowd-pleasers that country music has to offer. A thriving branch on one of music history’s most illustrious family trees, Cummins’ roots extend back through three generations of world-class entertainers. He is the grandson of the late Clyde “Red” Foley, who is enshrined in the Country Music Hall of Fame and acknowledged as one of the most beloved singers as well as radio and television personalities of all time. Cummins’ mother, Betty Foley, was an award-winning vocalist in the mid-1950s and is best remembered for the classic hit duets she recorded with her father. Another Foley daughter, Shirley, married fifties idol Pat Boone and produced Cummins’ first cousin, Debby Boone, who lit up the charts in the late 70s with You Light Up My Life. Born in Berea, Kentucky, Cummins grew up in Junction City, Kansas. He studied music education at Kansas University, and it was there that he decided to make his own contribution to his family’s ongoing tradition.

From "Male Newcomer of the Year" in Branson, Missouri's All - American Music Awards, and the venerable Jamboree USA in Wheeling, West Virginia, to main showrooms of Las Vegas, Cummins’ one-of-a-kind offerings have found unlimited acceptance on many of the industry’s most prestigious stages. His audiences have responded with the enthusiasm that could only follow a consummate entertainment event. Numerous television credits have also helped to make him a recognized and widely repeated attraction for conventions, corporate events, cruise ships, casinos, and with over fifteen hundred fairs under his belt, it’s obvious he is one of the all–time favorites on the nation’s state and county fair circuit, as well. Not only a natural and very gifted emcee, Cummins has the ability to cross every boundary within his art form. His vocals can be rollicking and uplifting in one song or plaintive and pleading in the next -- a gift reminiscent of his legendary grandfather. His musicianship is mesmerizing as he easily embarks on an odyssey of over a dozen different instruments, covering everything from guitar to trumpet, fiddle, banjo, sax, harmonica, piano, mandolin, and so on. He is equally adept in his ability to include the audience in his endeavors, firmly cementing the critical bond between artist and observer through which lasting careers are maintained.

Now performing as a regular cast member at the Comedy Barn Theater, “the funniest show in town” in Pigeon Forge, TN., Clyde has been with the show for six seasons. He has also been the host of the Pigeon Forge's prestigious Black Bear Jamboree, a high energy musical revue. And like the Comedy Barn, the Black Bear Jamboree is also a member of the Fee/Hedrick Family Entertainment Group.

Some of Clyde's other efforts in recent years have been as host and director of "Country Tonite", also in Pigeon Forge, Voted “Best Live Country Show In America", and "Best Show In The Smokies".  His show, "Clyde Foley Cummins Family and Friends", produced, written, and directed by Mr. Cummins, also featured his wife and three children.

Surely Cummins himself provided the greatest insight to the motivation behind his work when he once said in an interview:

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