Rodney Atkins Announces Eighth Annual Music City Gives Back Concert
Big and Rich have already been scheduled as the concert's headliner for the evening.
Rodney Atkins will once again return to the stage for a worthy cause this summer. He’s announced that his 2018 Music City Gives Back concert is set for Monday (June 4), and Big & Rich have been tapped as headliners.
This marks the eighth time Atkins has hosted the event in benefit of the W.O. Smith Music School, which aims to “transform lives through music” by offering music classes to children from low-income families in the Nashville area. The event serves as the unofficial launch to CMA Music Festival, with additional acts set to be announced over the coming weeks.
“This show has become a highlight of every summer for me. It gets bigger and better each year, and it’s such a fun way for us to give back to the W.O. Smith Music School here in Nashville,” Atkins says about the event in a press release. “We have some great artists joining us this year and I’m so grateful for their support.”
Music City!! Gonna play our guitars and sing you a country song. Join us in Nashville with our buddy @RodneyAtkins for the 8th annual @MusicCityGB concert at Ascend Park on Monday, June 4. Come out and help us raise money for W.O. Smith Music School! #MCGB18 pic.twitter.com/MkvIURQtHv
— Big & Rich (@bigandrich) May 18, 2018
The Music City Gives Back concert began in 2011 and has featured artists like Brett Young, Dustin Lynch, Jana Kramer, Maddie & Tae, Lee Brice and Josh Thompson. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $50,000 for the music school.
Atkins himself recently shared new music with the release of “Caught Up in the Country,” his first single in four years and an indication of what we can expect on his forthcoming album.
“This song is a labor of love…It pushes the envelope sonically. It’s organic. It’s got energy,” he tells Sounds Like Nashville. “It just made sense [as the new single] because it represents what I’ve been caught up in, and I just love every inch of doing this.”
Music City Gives Back will set up shop at Ascend Park at 5 p.m in Nashville on June 4 and is free and open to the public.
