IF YOU GO* What: U.S. 101’s Heart Strings for Hope.* When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.* Where: Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St.* Admission: $26.50 (plus convenience fees).* Phone: 757-5050.* Web site: www.ChattanoogaOnStage.com.
The Scenic City is going to send a little love to the Bluff City with a heaping helping of country music on Tuesday.
Heart Strings for Hope, a concert hosted at the Tivoli Theatre by radio station US101, will feature Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry, singer/songwriters Randy Houser, Kelley Lovelace and Luke Bryan, and rising singer Mallary Hope. Proceeds will benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.
“It’ll be like sitting in the living room with all these people,” said Ken Hicks, on-air personality with the station. “It’s a nice little concert we were able to get together.”
He said each singer is likely to be introduced individually, but they’ll all end up onstage telling stories and singing songs.
Since the concert is being underwritten by Miller Industries, all proceeds will go to the hospital, Hicks said.
“For a lot of country music people,” he said, “the hospital is close to their heart.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
* Eddie Montgomery: Along with Troy Gentry, Montgomery is a past winner (2000) of Country Music Association’s Duo of the Year award and has numerous Top 10 country hits. Among the duo’s hits are “Hillbilly Shoes,” “Daddy Won’t Sell the Farm,” “Lonely and Gone,” “All Night Long” (with Charlie Daniels) and “She Couldn’t Change Me.”
* Randy Houser: His hits as a songwriter include “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk” (a 2005 hit for Trace Adkins). He released a solo album, “Anything Goes,” in 2009 following his hit single of the same name a year earlier. A native of Mississippi, he has fronted bands since he was 13, later forming the band 10lb. Biscuit. He moved to Nashville with a songwriting deal in 2002.
* Kelly Lovelace: The Grammy Award nominee, raised in Hixson, has 10 Top 5 hits as a songwriter with various artists. The No. 1s are: “He Didn’t Have To Be” (Brad Paisley), “The Impossible” (Joe Nichols), “I Just Wanna Be Mad” (Terri Clark), “The World” (Paisley) and “Don’t Forget To Remember Me” (Carrie Underwood). “He Didn’t Have To Be” received Song of the Year nominations by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and the TNN Music Awards. He received Song of the Year awards for the hit from the TNN Music Awards and Music Row Magazine.
* Luke Bryan: The Georgia native has been writing songs since he was 16. Despite some stops and starts in the business, he moved to Nashville in 2001 and earned a songwriting contract. He continued to perform in local clubs and eventually received a record deal from Capitol Records. His releases include “I’ll Stay Me” in 2007 and “Doin’ My Thing” in 2009. “I Do” is his current single.
* Mallary Hope: By the age of 15, the Chatsworth, Ga.-area native Hope had sung in Nashville, formed her first band, written her first original song and won in a talent show with the song. She later moved to Nashville, became a session singer and eventually won a record deal with MCA. Her first two singles are “Love Lives On” and “Blossom in the Dust.”