Thomas Patrick and Rachel Porter will perform with the Maui Pops Orchestra on Feb. 16 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Courtesy photos

It’s going to be a delightful afternoon for country fans when Rachel Potter and Patrick Thomas team with the Maui Pops Orchestra for a “Legends of Country” concert on Feb. 16 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.

An acclaimed Broadway star and Nashville artist, Potter’s resume includes a national tour as “Wicked’s” Glinda, starring in an “Evita” revival, and she was a popular finalist on “The X Factor.” Thomas has toured the U.S. singing classic country covers with major symphony orchestras, and he was a finalist on “The Voice.”

The two singers have collaborated with orchestras since 2014. “We met in Nashville and started doing this ‘Legends of Country’ show,” Potter explains. “We’ve got a bunch of new arrangements, so it’s sort of been reborn into a second version. He’s an incredible talent, a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar and piano in the show, and we complement each other really well. He will do some solos and I will do some solos and we will do some duets.”

Under the direction of guest conductor Adam Jones, the Pops’ program includes a range of timeless classics including Hank Wlliams’ “Hey Good Lookin’,” Willie Nelson’s “On The Road Again” and “Crazy,” and medleys of Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton songs, plus the “Theme from Bonanza” and Copeland’s magnificent, Western-themed “Hoe-Down.”

“I’ve got ‘Crazy,’ ‘Harper Valley P.T.A.,’ and ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ by Loretta Lynn,” says Potter. “I have ‘Man, I Feel Like a Woman’ by Shania Twain, and Dolly Parton’s ‘I Will Always Love You,’ but I do it in Whitney’s (Houston) version. I absolutely love singing anything by Dolly Parton. I’m such a fan of hers. I love to show how when we do ‘I Will Always Love You,’ how transcendent country music can be through genres. Because that’s happened a number of times where it’ll originate as a country song, but then be taken into the world of pop and become so iconic.”

Potter says her co-star has “some fun ones like ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia,’ ‘Friends in Low Places,’ and a Johnny Cash medley. It’s fun because we get to tell some stories about the origination of the songs and it’s really a neat experience to have country done with the symphony.”

Bridging the worlds of country and Broadway, Potter is getting set to release the unique album “Stages,” featuring symphonic versions of Broadway songs.

At the end of January, she released a marvelous video with Marty Thomas and The Voice’s Omar Jose Cardona, singing a stunning medley of “Come What May” from “Moulin Rouge” and “The I Love You Song’ from “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.”

“That was my brainchild,” she says. “Two of my favorite songs that I loved so much and trying to figure out how to utilize my talented friends on my album and it really turned out so cool.”

Her love for singing with orchestras initially inspired the new recording. “The last time I did Broadway was 2013 when ‘Evita’ closed, and I entered the world of singing with pop symphonies in 2014,” she noted. “It is one of my greatest loves to sing with an orchestra. So I wanted to incorporate my two loves of Broadway and symphonies, and I realized I’d never recorded any of that style before and I had only ever done country. And so that’s how ‘Stages’ was born.”

Many folks first became aware of Potter’s talent when she auditioned for “The X Factor” in 2013. She blew everyone away with a phenomenal cover of Queen’s “Somebody to Love.” It became a YouTube hit and was included on her album “Not So Black and White.”

“That song was my musical theater pop audition song,” she says. “I knew I could nail it because it was something that was very familiar to me that I’d sung so many times in an audition setting for New York. What’s funny is that people go, ‘Oh, wow, where’d you get that country version track?’ It is literally to a Queen karaoke track. I guess I just sounded country when I sang it.”

She had actually planned on singing a different song, but technical issues prompted the show’s producers to suggest “Somebody to Love.” “It turned out to be one of the most recognizable things about me as an artist today. It continues to be my most played song on Spotify and YouTube, etc. So funny, things work out the way they’re supposed to.”

Potter and Thomas perform with the Maui Pops Orchestra at 3 p.m. Feb. 16 at the MACC’s Castle Theater. Tickets are $22, $35, $55 and $65, plus applicable fees. Students 18 and under are half-price (except for $22 tickets), available at MauiArts.org.