Featuring Mac Davis, Jamey Johnson, Ketch Secor, Even Stevens and
Holly Williams.
This inaugural event brings some of music’s most acclaimed
songwriters/entertainers together and is the work of the young and
precocious, Tad Bryant, founder of The HEADS UP PENNY FOUNDATION.
Mac Davis is a film, television, & Broadway actor, former host of his
own television show, a multi-platinum recording artist, radio
personality, an award-winning songwriter and BMI Icon. Mac has written
many standards for Elvis including “Memories,” “A Little Less
Conversation” and “In The Ghetto” which he sang on the NBC
All-Star Tribute to Elvis on February 17, 2019. He has penned hits for
a wide and diverse variety of legendary recording artists including
Dolly, Kenny Rogers, Rascal Flatts, and Avicii. He starred in one of
the top-football-films-of-all-time, North Dallas Forty. He may be best
known for his own recordings of his hits “Lubbock In My Rearview
Mirror,” “Stop and Smell the Roses,” “Baby Baby Don’t Get
Hooked On Me” and the tongue-in-cheek sing-along “Oh Lord It’s
Hard to be Humble.”
Jamey Johnson is an acclaimed singer-songwriter earning numerous
accolades including songwriter awards for 2005’s “Honky Tonk
Badonkadonk,” Johnson co-wrote for Trace Adkins, and ACM and CMA
Song of the Year Awards for co-writing the George Strait hit “Give
It Away.”
Ketch Secor is a founding member of Old Crow Medicine Show, a Grammy
Award-winning group that has been inducted as members of the Grand Ole
Opry. In 2017 and 2018, Old Crow Medicine Show released three
critically acclaimed albums: Best of Old Crow Medicine Show
(Nettwerk), 50 Years of Blonde On Blonde (Columbia Nashville), a
reimagined version of Bob Dylan's classic Blonde on Blonde album, and
Volunteer (Sony Music Nashville).
Even Stevens, the Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame composer, has
accumulated an unprecedented 53 BMI Awards, including, 14 Pop Awards -
26 Country Awards, earning him the distinction as a BMI Songwriter of
the Century. Top hits include: Dr. Hook’s When “You’re In Love
With A Beautiful Woman,” “Eddie Rabbitt’s “I Love A Rainy
Night” & Kenny Roger’s “Love Will Turn You Around.”
Holly Audrey Williams, hailing from the South, this singer-songwriter
is forging her own family traditions. Holly is an American
singer-songwriter, retailer, designer, and mother to three young
children. She is the granddaughter of Hank Williams Sr., the daughter
of Hank Williams Jr. and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
In addition to three critically acclaimed albums and extensive
touring, including Opry appearances, Holly continues to carve a path
in design, retail, and hospitality. She is the visionary behind H.
Audrey and White’s Mercantile, two unique and adored retail concepts
that have been hailed as, “impeccable…modern…always on point.”
She has renovated and curated historic properties, under the name
White’s Room and Board -- a collection of unforgettable farmhouses
and cabins, available for rent, offering a fresh take on the VRBO
model.
Holly’s life, her music, and her businesses are choreographed around
all of the things she loves and collects with her family and friends
as the centerpiece. She is a tireless creative, currently writing her
new record, expanding her retail footprint with eight White's
Mercantile stores and more opening around the country, and starting
her first television show with HGTV.
Proceeds will be split and go towards HEADS UP PENNY FOUNDATIONS
PROGRAMS THAT INCLUDE:
The music camp scholarship fund at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The annual support of local kids’ Christmas toys and food.
Kids with special needs.
More About the HEADS UP PENNY FOUNDATION:
The HEADS UP PENNY FOUNDATION WAS CREATED BY A COMPASSIONATE KID;
fourteen year-old Thaddeus Bryant. Thaddeus (also known as Tad) has
been raising money to help those in need; especially kids, since he
was three years old.
Thaddeus made a dramatic entrance into the world which necessitated
years of intensive occupational and physical therapy. His sweet and
accepting nature made him a favorite playmate of children in therapy
that had much steeper uphill battles to fight. Through his own hard
work and grit - and through working alongside and encouraging other
children, he realized that everyone has a challenge at some point in
their lives. His hard work strengthening his body created an
unparalleled work ethic and desire to help others.
Tad loves to find coins on the ground and has always believed that
those found HEADS-up are lucky. In fact, Tad wrote a song about a
“HEADS-up PENNY NIGHT” which was the inspiration for the name of
his FOUNDATION. While on safety patrol around his New York City school
with his mom and another 2nd grade mother, his passion for helping
others was inspiring. The other mom, attorney Pam Landman, agreed to
open his FOUNDATION PRO BONO. The HEADS UP PENNY FOUNDATION WAS BORN
IN NEW YORK CITY IN 2012 AND INCORPORATED IN TENNESSEE WHEN THE
BRYANTS MOVED TO FRANKLIN IN 2014.
The mission of The HEADS UP PENNY FOUNDATION IS TO CHANGE CHILDREN’s
luck, one PENNY AT A TIME. Thaddeus’ fundraisers have included
summer read-a-thons, bake sales, and Halloween parties. Through
wonderful supporters and a lot of hard work, several hundred children
have received food, toys, necessities at Christmas time. He has also
created scholarships to summer Camp at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Thaddeus’ summer plans for the FOUNDATION INCLUDE JOINING FELLOW
SONGWRITERS AT THE HALL OF FAME SONG CAMP AND MAKING BALLOON ANIMALS
FOR KIDS AT ST JUDE’s in Memphis.
For more information visit www.HeadsUpPennyFoundation.org
[http://www.HeadsUpPennyFoundation.org/]
Presented by the HEADS UP PENNY FOUNDATION
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