Chris Stapleton just raised over $1 million for residents in his home state of Kentucky with his “A Concert For Kentucky.”
Joined by Willie Nelson and Family, Sheryl Crow, and Madeline Edwards, Stapleton played to a crowd of 40,000 fans at the first-ever concert to occur at the University of Kentucky’s Kroger Field.
“Every night we walk on a stage, we do our best to help people forget their troubles or celebrate or remember or hope or heal,” Stapleton wrote on Instagram. “Every night we play, a portion of those profits always goes to charity.”
The Hometown Fund is part of Outland State Of Kind, Stapleton’s charitable fund founded in 2016. The fund is distributed by the Blue Grass Community Foundation and supports a variety of causes in Kentucky, including The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, American Red Cross, UK Healthcare Kentucky Children’s Hospital, the Community Foundation of Western Kentucky’s Disaster Relief Fund and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
“It is a tremendously pure and rewarding moment to get to provide the medicine that is music in that space,” Stapleton said. “I’m grateful to everyone who came to the show and to all of the musicians, managers, agents and crew members that made this moment possible.”
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