12th Annual Golf and Guitars Music Festival Raises Money For California-Based Children Charities

For the past dozen years, the Haggin Oaks Golf Complex and KNCI 105.1 FM have proudly hosted the Golf and Guitars Music Festival and Children’s Charity Concert in Sacramento, CA, raising over one million dollars for charity along the way. This year’s Golf and Guitars event was held on May 13 and 14, with more than 20 country artists donating their musical support to the cause.

Cody Johnson, Mitchell Tenpenny, Love & Theft, Adam Hambrick, Jason Michael Carroll, Morgan Evans, Parmalee and Colbie Caillat's Gone West were among the musicians who performed during the two-day event.

The event kicked off with a VIP party on Monday night, including the recognition of 21 college scholarship winners (with more than $30,000 being awarded in educational funds) and a singer/songwriter showcase headlined by Jason Michael Carroll. Tuesday's activities included a silent auction, a charity golf tournament featuring professional golfers and golf-loving country artists alike, and a star-studded main concert. With tickets beginning at just $35, the Golf and Guitars Music Festival was both affordable and altruistic.

Ken Morton Jr, co-owner of the golf management company that runs Haggin Oaks, hosts the annual event in partnership with KNCI, Sacramento's long-running country music station. As always, funds raised by the annual event were split between the Morton Golf Foundation — a non-profit corporation that provides funds to help enrich the lives of the less fortunate through healthy outdoor activities like golf — and the artists' children-focused charities of choice.

Some of those charities of choice from the artists included:

Grant Napaer - $5k – Thistle Farms
Eric Gunderson (Love and Theft) - $5k – Shine for Susie
Drew Kennedy - $5k- Mark McEvoy Legacy Foundation
Chris Roberts - $4k – Valor Collegiate Academy
Neal Morgan (Cripple Creek Band) - $2k – St. Jude
Travis Simas (Cripple Creek Band) -  $2k – Youth for Christ
Matt Thomas (Parmalee) - $2k – St. Jude

For more about the Golf and Guitars Music Festival at Haggin Oaks, please contact:
Jackie Marushka at 615-417-6500 / Jackie@MarushkaMedia.com

That Nashville Sound Saturday Newsbytes: Terri Clark, Tom Petty, Garth Brooks, Loretta Lynn, Tony Jackson, Abby Anderson & More

We're playing catch-up this weekend with a new music video and a handful of new album introductions. TNS would love to hear from you- what's your favorite off of the list below?

- Tony Jackson has a new music video for his new song, "Ain't No App For That"

- Garth Brooks will release a new live album called Triple Live featuring 26 tracks assembled from shows on Brooks’ extensive world tour that began in 2014 including a cover of Ashley McBryde's phenomenal song, "Girl Going Nowhere."

- Morgan Evans will drop his new project Things That We Drink To on October 2. His full-length debut album will include a duet with his wife, Kelsea Ballerini, on a song he wrote for her called, “Dance with Me.”

- It's been far too long since Terri Clark released new music and the news that she's delivering a new album so the news that Raising the Bar is coming on September 14 is a welcome one. Track list is below:

1. Givin' Up Givin' a Damn

2. Cowboys in This Town

3. Weddings, Funerals, and Empty Hotel Bars

4. Young As We Are Tonight

5. Half a Bottle Down

6. Bloody Mary Morning

7. Watered Down Whiskey

8. As Long As There's a Bar

9. Right Where You Left Me

10. You Can Have This Town

11. The One That Got Away (feat. Drake White)

12. The Encore

13. Better Than I Was

 

- Abby Anderson's "Make Him Wait" is one of our favorite songs of the year and she's just announced it and four additional tracks will be on her debut EP, I'm Good, out September 7th.

 

- Following her stroke last year, Loretta Lynn postponed her project, Wouldn't It Be Great. The good news is that Lynn is feeling strong enough to set the release date for the project and it will be forthcoming on September 18 on Sony.

 

- John Carter Cash will be releasing We Must Believe in Magic on Reviver Records on September 9.

 

- Criminally under-publicized is a brand new tribute album to Roger Miller that came out yesterday featuring the likes of Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley, Rodney Crowell, Dwight Yoakam, Jamey Johnson, Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Dunn, Eric Church and more. Check out the details here.

 

- Nearly a year on from his death, Tom Petty fans are getting a special gift in the form of An American Treasure, a forthcoming 60-track boxed set of mostly previously unreleased studio and live material coming out September 28.