TO PURCHASE TICKETS* Hands on Nashville: www.hon.org, 615-298-1108.* Nashville Red Cross: www.nashville redcross.org, 615-250-4300, 877-253-4334.* Second Harvest Food Bank: www.second harvestmidtn.org, 615-329-3491.
Grand-reopening festivities at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center continue Thursday with a fundraising concert by country stars Trade Adkins and Craig Morgan.
The show “will celebrate the spirit of Nashville” and the tens of thousands of volunteers who took to the streets to help their neighbors after the unprecedented flooding that swept through the city last May, according to Colin Reed, chairman and CEO of Gaylord Entertainment.
A total of 1,500 tickets are available through three of Nashville’s leading nonprofit agencies: Hands on Nashville, the Nashville Area Chapter of the American Red Cross and Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee. Ticket purchases are a direct contribution to the organization, and they keep all proceeds from sales.
“We’re going to do what we can to say ‘thank you’ to the volunteers and organizations who answered the call to help their neighbors out after the flood,” Adkins said. “That’s just the Nashville way, and it’s worth celebrating.”