Services Set For Merle Kilgore
Services have been set for Merle Kilgore, who died on Sunday night, February 6, from congestive heart failure, related to cancer treatment.
Visitation will take place February 14 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Hendersonville Memory Gardens and Funeral Home in Hendersonville, TN. The funeral will be at noon on February 15 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, with visitation from 11 a.m. to noon.
Burial will be at Hendersonville Memory Gardens following services.
Country Music Superstar Martina McBride’s My Heart CD, Available Exclusively at Hallmark Gold Crown® Stores, Is Gold Just In Time For Valentine’s Day
Martina McBride’s My Heart, a collection of eight love songs hand-picked by Martina exclusively for Hallmark Gold Crown stores this Valentine season, reached gold in just one week following its official release on January 24, 2005.
My Heart includes signature love songs from Martina’s repertoire including “Valentine,” “All The Things We’ve Never Done,” “Born To Give My Love To You” and “In My Daughter’s Eyes,” as well as the Etta James classic “At Last” and Buck Owens’s “Together Again” which were recorded especially for the project. The album represents Hallmark’s first-ever Valentine’s CD featuring newly arranged and performed music. More...
The Mission To "Change And Save Lives" Was Front And Center As Country In The Rockies XI Hit Crested Butte Last Week
February 8, 2005 ? The annual signature fund-raising event for the T.J. Martell's Nashville Division brought music fans to Club Med Crested Butte for a week of mingling with artists and songwriters on the slopes, in the Club Med Theater and in late-night guitar pulls. Proceeds from the event support innovative research in the Frances Williams Preston Laboratories at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
Participants saw first-hand the impact that cancer has on families ? and the importance of the research that their generosity supports ? as they got to know Don and Margaret Darnell and Kevin and Linda Martin, guests of the event. The Darnells' daughter Katie, who died of brain cancer in 2003, gained fame for her song "Rescue Me," recorded by John Rich of Big & Rich and Wynonna Judd. Kevin has advanced colon cancer as the result of an inherited condition called FAP; one of their five children is known to have inherited the condition. More...
Affiliated Foods Midwest Country Stampede Rounds Out Talent Line-Up For Manhattan Festival Adding Lonestar, Dierks Bentley, Chely Wright, Sawyer Brown And Others
The organizers of the 10th Annual Affiliated Foods Midwest Country Stampede festival, which will be held at Tuttle Creek State Park in Manhattan, Kansas (June 23-26th), have announced the final additions to the star-studded talent line up slated to perform over the four day event. Multi-platinum artists such as keith urban, Phil Vassar, ZZ Top, Big & Rich, Lonestar, and Montgomery Gentry will be joined by Dierks Bentley, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Sawyer Brown, Chely Wright, George Canyon, and newcomers Shelly Fairchild, Billy Currington, Sugarland, Shevy Smith, Keni Thomas, Lane Turner, and the Drew Davis Band.
Festival President Wayne Rouse is confident this year’s line-up will draw a sell-out crowd. “We make our talent buying decisions based on on-site surveys and the feedback we receive on our website from the fans. We tallied the votes as obtained from the site and decided that this year’s festival is all about what the fans want, because it is truly their event!” More...
Grammy Artists to Receive Tug McGraw Foundation Bracelet
The Tug McGraw Foundation is providing the 45 YGB Bracelets to all artist participants in Sunday’s Grammy Awards gift bags. Tim McGraw is the Honorary Chairman of the Foundation and first introduced the bracelets to the public during a visit on CNN’s “Larry King Live” in September 2004.
The 45 YGB bracelets are made from the seams of a baseball and are held together by tying the red strings. Tug McGraw’s baseball number was 45 and his catch phrase was “You Gotta Believe.”
Tim McGraw wears his everyday and you can catch the Dancehall Doctors sporting theirs in the “How Bad Do You Want It” music video. They have also been seen on the wrists of numerous country music artists and ballplayers.
The 45 YGB bracelets can be found online for purchase at TimMcGraw.com. Proceeds go toward the funding of pioneering neuro-oncology medical research that will help adults and children facing the challenge of brain cancer.