Darius Rucker & Friends
Monday, June 6, 2016
Wildhorse Saloon
Nashville, TN
Wildhorse Saloon
Nashville, TN
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Darius Rucker always has an outstanding line-up for his annual Darius Rucker & Friends benefit concert.
Joining Rucker onstage in 2016 were Terri Clark, Hunter Hayes, LoCash, Scotty McCreery, Charley Pride, and Drake White. The annual event was held on June 6, at Nashville’s Wildhorse Saloon. The event was hosted by Suzanne Alexander Rucker’s benefit concert, along with a silent auction and golf tournament, raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Throughout the years, more than $700,000 has been raised, with more than $220,000 raised in 2015 alone. |
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Darius Rucker
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Darius Rucker first attained multi-platinum status as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Hootie & the Blowfish, Since re-introducing himself to the world as a country artist, his musical life has had a truly remarkable Second Act.
In 2008, he released Learn to Live; the album's first single, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It," made him the first African-American with a Number One country song since Charley Pride in 1983. It was followed by two more singles that topped the chart—"It Won't Be Like This For Long" and "Alright"—and earned him the New Artist award from the Country Music Association. His 2010 follow-up, Charleston, SC 1966, included two more Number Ones, while True Believers contained another four hit singles. Vocally, Southern Style sees Rucker expanding his range and pushing his limits. “I definitely took a bit more chances in my singing,” he says. “I didn’t record everything in that very low key; a few of the songs are up in a higher key, and it was fun hitting those notes.” |
Band
LoCash
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According to their Web-site:
"It’s an exciting time to be LOCASH these days. That might very well be one of the biggest understatements in Nashville these days. Already in their career, the duo of Preston Brust and Chris Lucas have enjoyed hit singles, sold-out concert appearances here and abroad, and have tasted the top of the chart as two of Nashville’s quickest-rising songwriters. But, to quote the old saying... You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet." |
Scotty McCreery
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Bio from ScottyMcreery.com
"Scotty McCreery burst onto the national music scene in 2011 at age 17, quickly establishing himself as one of country music’s hottest new stars. Now in his early twenties, the talented singer/songwriter has album sales approaching 3 million, and received both Platinum and Gold album certifications, debuted three consecutive albums at No. 1 on a Billboard chart, and achieved one Gold and three Platinum-certified singles as well as two Top Ten hits. McCreery has toured with Brad Paisley and Rascal Flatts, headlined his own tours, earned industry and fan accolades, and was named “Best American Idol” by the readers of The Los Angeles Times and “Country Music’s Sexiest Man” by the readers of NASH Country Weekly Magazine. He has amassed more than three million followers on Facebook and Twitter, and received more than 150 million YouTube views. And with the release of his first book Go Big or Go Home: The Journey Toward the Dream in 2016, he can also add the title of author to his resume." |
Terri Clark
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Hailing from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, Terri got her start playing for tips at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, a honky-tonk bar across the alley from Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. She signed with Mercury Records and emerged as a distinctive voice on the country music landscape – driving, passionate, spirited – and every bit her own woman.
The 8-time CCMA Entertainer of the Year has also taken home the CCMA Female Vocalist of the Year award five times. She has made her mark on radio with more than twenty singles, including six Number Ones in Canada and the USA – hits such as such as “Better Things To Do,” “Poor Poor Pitiful Me,” “Girls Lie Too,” and “I Just Wanna Be Mad.” Terri has sold over five million albums and achieved Gold, Platinum, Double Platinum, and Triple Platinum status as certified by the CRIA and RIAA. She also has the honor of being the only Canadian female artist to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry. |
Drake White
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According to his Web-site:
"An artist like Drake White doesn’t come along every day. As his Dot Records debut It Feels Good: Live demonstrates, the Alabama native is a commanding, deeply expressive singer, a riveting, charismatic performer and a one-of-a-kind songwriter whose vivid lyrical insights are rooted in his small-town Southern upbringing and honed by his experiences touring America with his band the Big Fire. White’s effortlessly infectious song craft combines swagger and sensitivity, channeling a bottomless well of American influences into timeless music that’s firmly planted in the here and now. White has already generated significant amounts of fan excitement and music-industry buzz, as well as scoring a Top 40 country hit with 2013′s “The Simple Life.” Named one of Billboard‘s “10 Hot Country Artists to Watch in 2015″ and dubbed “an electric performer with a gospel howl” by Rolling Stone Country, White was also prominent on Rolling Stone‘s list of “The 37 Best Things We Saw at CMA Fest 2014.”" |
Dan Tyminski
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Dynamic on stage, down to earth off stage, 14-time Grammy winner Dan Tyminski has the voice, instrumental chops, and charisma to be counted among the most recognizable and popular male vocalists on today's bluegrass and country music scenes. Yet his demeanor - low-key and laconically sly - ensures that all the accolades are the product of his own innate gifts.
Since 1994, his ace instrumental skill (mainly on guitar, but also on mandolin) and burnished, soulful tenor singing have been key components of Alison Krauss and Union Station, arguably the most visible and successful bluegrass band in the modern era. |
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Hunter Hayes
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Listen closely to Hunter Hayes as he talks, that million-mile-an-hour voice, all rapid-fire energy and bustling passion.
Not long ago he released his second album, the country chart-topping Storyline. But the 22-year-old, mind always churning, ideas jettisoning from brain to hand and voice, can’t help but wonder what lies ahead. “I’m on an unending search to find what it is that I love and how it is that I will do it,” he says of the wide-open, all-options future for a four-time GRAMMY nominee, CMA New Artist of the Year and youngest male act ever to top the Billboard Hot Country song chart |
Charley Pride
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Bio from Official Web-Site:
Born to poor sharecroppers, one of eleven children in Sledge, Mississippi, Pride is a timeless everyman, revered by his musical peers and adored by countless millions of fans around the globe. His golden baritone voice has transcended race and spanned the generations. Charley Pride unofficially started his music career in the late 1950s as a ballplayer with the Negro American League's Memphis Red Sox singing and playing guitar on the team bus between ballparks. Self-taught on a guitar bought at the age 14 from Sears Roebuck, Pride would join various bands' onstage as he and the team roved the country. Read More ... |
