BID FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN TWO VIP TICKETS & MEET VINCE NOVEMBER 1ST
This is an incredible opportunity to rub elbows with some of Country Music’s finest while helping raise support for the children and families served by STARS Nashville.
One of the most popular singers in modern country music, Vince Gill has a love for country music, top-notch songwriting, and world-class guitar playing, all wrapped in a warm tenor and a quick and easy wit. Gill achieved his big breakthrough with “When I Call Your Name,” which won the Country Music Association’s Single of the Year award. Since then, he has won 17 more CMA honors, including Song of the Year four times – making him the most awarded artist in that category in CMA history. Since 1990, Gill has walked away with 20 Grammy Awards and has racked up sales in excess of 26 million. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007. After a long and musically productive spell of writing, touring and recording with other artists, he roars back on his own with “Threaten Me With Heaven,” his first single in four years. The song is the opening salvo from his MCA Records album, Guitar Slinger, due out October 24. more!
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RASCAL FLATTS SURPRISED WITH GRAND OLE OPRY INVITATION
When Rascal Flatts played the Grand Ole Opry Tuesday night, they weren’t expecting country legend Vince Gill to pop by … let alone with big news for the band.
Under the guise of collecting $500 from the trio after he “kicked their butts” on the golf course, Gill walked unannounced from the wings and took center stage.
The bandmates figured he was pulling one of his infamous pranks. “But when he said, ‘On behalf of the Grand Ole Opry,’ everything kind of slowed down, and we knew something big was happening, bassist Jay DeMarcus tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Indeed it was: Gill surprised the band with a long-awaited invitation to officially join the Opry. “My initial reaction was tears, but I knew we had to play another song!” says guitarist Joe Don Rooney. “I’ll probably cry like a baby when I get home tonight.”
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VINCE GILL INVITES RASCAL FLATTS TO JOIN THE GRAND OLE OPRY
Vince Gill was on hand at the Grand Ole Opry last night to invite Rascal Flatts to join the Grand Ole Opry! Rascal Flatts also performed “Whenever You Come Around” with Vince! If you missed it, watch it now!
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A RARE, INTIMATE BENEFIT EVENING WITH VINCE GILL AT HOUSING WORKS BOOKSTORE CAFE
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One of the most popular singers in modern country music, Vince Gill has a love for country music, top-notch songwriting, and world-class guitar playing, all wrapped in a warm tenor and a quick and easy wit. Gill achieved his big breakthrough with “When I Call Your Name,” which won the Country Music Association’s Single of the Year award. Since then, he has won 17 more CMA honors, including Song of the Year four times – making him the most awarded artist in that category in CMA history. Since 1990, Gill has walked away with 20 Grammy Awards and has racked up sales in excess of 26 million. Gill co-hosted the CMA Awards for 12 consecutive years. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007. After a long and musically productive spell of writing, touring and recording with other artists, he roars back on his own with “Threaten Me With Heaven,” his first single in four years. The song is the opening salvo from his MCA Records album, Guitar Slinger, due out October 24.
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All ticket sales benefit the Housing Works mission of fighting to end AIDS and homelessness.
$75 tickets reserve seats and will be fulfilled in the order they are purchased with the best available remaining — from front row center through side views.
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LEANN RIMES, ‘WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME’ — EXCLUSIVE SONG PREMIERE
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Vince Talks Producing “When I Call Your Name”
Why We Love It: On her new album, ‘Lady and Gentlemen,’ LeAnn pays tribute to some of the country legends who influenced her career, putting her own spin on their classic tunes. A standout track on the project, due in stores Sept. 27, is ‘When I Call Your Name,’ the heartbreaking ballad by Vince Gill, who co-produced the project. Vince tells The Boot he insisted LeAnn make the song her own, and not just sing “a note for note version.”
“I started playing her some Sam Cooke records, so that she could hear it more like an R&B song,” he explains. “It was a neat way of doing the song, and she sang the fire out of it!”
On ‘Lady and Gentlemen,’ LeAnn also sings the fire out of tunes by Merle Haggard, George Jones, Tennessee Ernie Ford and Kris Kristofferson, among others. Two bonus tracks are the original songs ‘Crazy Women’ and ‘Give,’ and the songbird also revisits the tune that put her name on the country music map some 15 years ago, ‘Blue.’
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VINCE GILL AND STING TEAM UP FOR “ULTIMATE” CMT CROSSROADS
By Allen Morridon – American Songwriter
“You people are either very lucky or very hooked up.” Bill Flanagan, the television executive and music critic, was warming up an invitation-only crowd at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan Tuesday night for a taping of the latest episode of CMT Crossroads. “This is the hottest ticket in New York tonight,” he said without exaggeration, “and the biggest show in Crossroads’ ten-year history.”
The critically-acclaimed CMT series matches country and rock stars, usually for one-night-only concerts (the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss pairing was an exception). The new show debuts November 25, the day after Thanksgiving.
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