The Haygoods

Branson's modern variety show, perfected by one family

⏱ 2 hours👤 All ages$$

The Haygood siblings started performing at Silver Dollar City in 1993 — the youngest was still in a booster seat — and have since logged more than 30 years and well over 6,000 shows in Branson, evolving from a precocious family bluegrass act into the town's definitive modern variety show. The lineup is five brothers and their sister Catherine; among them they play more than 20 instruments, often trading mid-song: dueling guitars into five-part harmony, a violin feature into a saxophone battle, Catherine's harp into full-band rock covers.

What separates the show is production ambition. The family invests like a touring arena act: synchronized laser arrays and LED video walls, indoor drone choreography, pyrotechnics, and entrances that arrive from above the audience. The setlist runs decades — classic rock and Motown through current pop and country, with original material — paced with the comedy and audience work six siblings naturally generate. It's loud, polished, and relentlessly crowd-pleasing in the way the best of Branson is, without leaning on nostalgia alone.

They perform a heavy annual schedule (typically five-plus nights a week in season) at the Clay Cooper Theatre on the strip's Shepherd of the Hills Expressway end, and their Christmas show — new production each year, from early November through December — is among the hottest tickets of Ozark Mountain Christmas. If you see one non-dinner show in town, locals will tell you this is the one; book online ahead, because they outsell everybody.