Vince Gill (left) poses with Keith Urban after their announcement in Nashville, Tenn. on Monday about a concert to benefit the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. AP Photo
By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR World Scene Writer
Published: 9/1/2009 11:17 AM
Last Modified: 9/1/2009 11:54 AM
Country stars Keith Urban and Oklahoma native Vince Gill will co-host an all-star concert to raise money for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Guests will include Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift and Faith Hill.
Urban and Gill announced the concert will be Oct. 13 at the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tenn.
The all-star show is part of the museum's "All for the Hall" fundraising initiative created and led by Gill since 2005, in which country artists play one night with proceeds going to the Hall, reports CMT Insider online. The site is calling this show the "concert of the year."
"It's an awareness benefit," Urban told the country music news outlet. " The great thing about the event, too, not only all of the people who have signed up to do it, but all of the vendors, too -- the lighting companies, trucking companies -- everybody has forgone all of their profit to make sure the Hall gets everything."
Gill is also Country Music Hall of Fame board president, the hall's official Web site shows.
Jason Aldean, Little Big Town and Lady Antebellum are also scheduled to perform, with more acts expected to be announced.
Tickets are $25 and go on sale 10:30 a.m. Wednesday via tulsaworld.com/Ticketmaster. More show details are available at tulsaworld.com/CMHoF.
The concert will open with a one-hour set by Urban and his band. Then, Gill will join Urban and an all-star band to bring out special guests, they said.
He was inducted into the national Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007 for "Career Achieved National Prominence Between 1975 and the Present." Said Gill in 2007, "When I found out I was being inducted, it took me under in a big way. I was not expecting that. … It was just that the work seemed like fun.
"I never planned ahead. … Out of all the things I've ever done, it matters. It matters so very much. Thank you so much."
Charity work to support the music he so loves is nothing new for Gill. In June, the Norman native joined Checotah music star Carrie Underwood joined many other artists to decorate custom Epiphone guitars to sell to benefit the Opry Trust Fund for the Grand Ole Opry. He has worked on hundreds of charitable events in his career.
Gill also is a member of the Grady Ole Opry and of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. He also has a street named after him in the historic Bricktown area in downtown Oklahoma City, along with the Flaming Lips, Wanda Jackson and Charlie Christian, among others. "Vince Gill is quite simply a living prism refracting all that is good in country music," said Kyle Young of Country Music Foundation on Gill's induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Born in 1957 in Norman, at an early age the music learned to play guitar, banjo, bass, mandolin, dobro and fiddle. In 1983, Gill signed with RCA Records and moved to Nashville to pursue his music career. He married Christian music artist Amy Grant in 2000.
He's sold more than 26 million albums in his lifetime, and earned 18 Country Music Association awards. He's also won 19 Grammy awards, more than any other country music artist in history.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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