Reba McEntire Lights Up OLG Stage in Niagara Falls with Her Country Charm [Show Review]

Reba McEntire was running around last month. Although her shows aren’t considered an official tour, this month has seen her in Oklahoma, Texas, California, Tennessee and lastly Niagara Falls, Ontario for an evening filled with country twang at OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino.

The show started with Reba and her ten-piece band walking out to a background montage of Reba through the years. After the second song, she stated that 2025 marks her 50th year of working in the music industry, before kicking into her first top 10 hit “(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven.”

Reba’s career is nothing short of incredible, with a resume including 59 Top 10 Billboard country songs, with 24 reaching #1. She is one of the most well-known female country singers of all time, with some publications framing her as “The Queen of Country Music.” It was no surprise to anyone that she would sell out OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino.

In between songs, Reba gave the crowd a timeline of her journey in the music industry. She touched on her last appearance in Canada, as it had been a while since she had come north of the border. She said the last time was in 2014 at the Calgary Stampede, however, she played two nights in Orillia, Ontario, in 2018, before OLG Stage was finished construction.

This show was a new experience for me. I’m often enjoying my time at a dive bar watching three or four-piece hardcore bands, however tonight I got to experience a ten-piece country band that didn’t need any extras to sound good. All of the vocalists went well together, even when I could count eight of them, including Reba, singing at once.

One of the most notable aspects of the show was the abilities of Carmella Ramsey, a long-time member of Reba’s team who got her start in 2006. It felt like she was a band all unto herself. She had the ability to go from a violin to a saxophone, then a guitar, and lastly a fiddle. She was playing all of these instruments while doing choreographed dancing and backup vocals. I was in shock by her constant instrument changes and how she was able to nail solos on every single one, even partaking in a saxophone versus guitarist solo battle after song 7, “You Lie.”

The next few songs took us on a journey of Reba’s acting career. With a backstory behind every song, Reba kicked off this group of songs with the ending song of her film debut, “Why Not Tonight” from the 1990 film Tremors. After that, we moved to her 2001 Broadway debut with a cover of “You Can’t Get a Man With a Gun” from Annie Get Your Gun.

We then moved to television, where Reba gave the backstory of how The Reba Show was supposed to be called Sally, and then kicked into the theme song titled “I’m A Survivor,” one of her most well-known songs. The last song from TV was the theme song of her recent TV show Happy’s Place. Before the song, she announced the renewal of season two of this show, which will come in the fall, and made note that everybody on stage was a part of making the soundtrack for the show.

After walking the crowd through her acting career, Reba wanted to hear from the crowd. During “Going Out Like That,” walking side to side, she instructed both sides to sing along during the chorus, and the crowd delivered, leaving Reba with a smile on her face.

Reba kept the storytelling all night, telling us about her sinus infection the week before, which, if she hadn’t told us about it, you wouldn’t have guessed. Reba sounded amazing, and everything I was told about her vocal performance in past performances was completely true.

Reba played a few covers back to back, starting off with a storytime about her embarrassing experience with Dua Lipa, where she mispronounced her name and called her “Dua Loppy.” Then playing a cover of “Respect” by Otis Redding, “Don’t Stop Now” by Dua Lipa, which recently made headlines the first time she performed it, and then she ended her group of covers with “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” by The Supremes.

The remaining seven songs on the setlist were some of Reba’s greatest hits and had the crowd on their feet and erupting during every opening chord. From “Consider Me Gone” to “Fancy,” Reba had the OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino on their feet and dancing for the rest of the night.