Craig Morgan Announces Charity Ride Event

Craig Morgan announced today that he will host the Craig Morgan Charity Ride again this year. The event will be held on Tuesday, March 31st in his hometown of Dickson, Tenn. (40 miles west of Nashville) to benefit several local charities. The event includes a special acoustic concert, silent auction and a motocross and 4-wheeler ride and launches The Craig Morgan Fund, a broader manifestation of Craig’s former Xtreme Team Makeover initiative. Craig established The Craig Morgan Fund earlier this year to support youth-based local and national charities.

“I grew up around Dickson, and live there now – it’s a great place to raise a family,” says Craig. “But not all children are as fortunate as we’d like them to be, so this event is a fun way to get people together to raise money and awareness to help kids who really need it.”

The most recent Craig Morgan Charity Ride was held in late 2007, and both the ride and concert sold out. The proceeds from that event helped to fund structural improvements at Dickson’s Van Leer Elementary School, including building a portico over the school’s entrance for student drop-offs and pick-ups in inclement weather. The 2008 charity event, initially planned for the fall, had to be postponed due to Craig’s concert and promotional commitments in support of his new BNA Records CD That’s Why.

This year’s event will kick off at 10 a.m. in Van Leer, Tennessee (near Dickson), with participants joining professional motocross riders Kevin Windham, Destrey Abbott, Fred Andrews, Barry Hawk and others, plus Craig Morgan and Bucky Covington (with more artists to be announced) for a day full of off-trail motocross and ATV riding. The ride is BYOB (bring your own bike or ATV). Guests will also have lunch with the celebrity participants. The Craig Morgan and Friends special acoustic concert will be held that night at the Renaissance Center in Dickson, Tenn. The 7:30 p.m. show is open to the public and will be a very intimate event, with less than 400 tickets available. The evening will also feature a silent auction.

VIP ticket packages are available for $200 and include two tickets to the ride and concert, plus a meet and greet with Craig. Tickets for the ride are $35 and include an on-site barbeque lunch, with $10 spectator tickets also available. Concert tickets are $35. All tickets can be purchased through The Renaissance Center box office by calling 1-888-700-2300. If you have further questions, please email CharityEvent@CraigMorgan.com