New York, NY — On Wednesday, October 15, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Douglas, Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris will perform at the second annual All for the Hall New York benefit for the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. Presented as an old-fashioned “guitar pull,” the benefit at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square will feature songs, stories, unique musical collaborations and memories from some of country music’s biggest names.

Last year’s inaugural event was a rousing success for the Museum. A coterie of music stars took the stage, including Bill Anderson, Shawn Colvin, Vince Gill, Patty Griffin, Jewel, Raul Malo, John Rich, Randy Scruggs, Taylor Swift, and Trisha Yearwood, for an evening of memorable performances attended by an exclusive audience of actors, artists, musicians, and business leaders. Museum Director Kyle Young said afterward that “we had high hopes for the event, and it topped all expectations. We reached out to New York, to let them know about our great museum and the special work we do in preserving musical and cultural history, and they embraced us with love and enthusiasm.”

All for the Hall New York patrons are offered tables for ten at the $25,000 and $10,000 levels and tables for eight at $7,500. Individual tickets are available at $750 per seat. The evening includes a cocktail reception, dinner, live auction and the guitar pull. To purchase a table or tickets or for more information, patrons may contact Jessica Jarve at jjarve@countrymusichalloffame.com or telephone 615/416-2035 or 800/852-6437.

Nancy Jarecki, owner of bettybeauty inc. and self-proclaimed country music ambassador of New York, will co-chair the event with AEG Live Chairman Tim Leiweke, while Rod Essig (CAA) and Ken Levitan (Vector Management) are on board as entertainment producers. All for the Hall New York is made possible by the generosity of AEG Live and the Nokia Theatre Times Square.

About the Performers

Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell began his career as a songwriter and guitarist for Emmylou Harris, but over three decades of composing he has shown himself to be a musician of matchless intelligence and complexity. Rodney won a Grammy in 1989 for the Best Country Song: “After All This Time.” He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003. After he re-formed the Notorious Cherry Bombs in 2004 with his old pal Vince Gill, the band was nominated for a CMA Top Vocal Group award. Hundreds of versions of his songs have been recorded over the years. His newly released CD is Sex & Gasoline.

Vince Gill
Country Music Hall of Fame member Vince Gill possesses an achingly beautiful tenor, award-winning songwriting skills, and virtuoso guitar chops. Together, they’ve earned him millions of record sales, nineteen Grammys (including Best Country Album for his latest release, These Days) and eighteen CMA Awards. Vince is also regarded as one of country music’s most generous humanitarians, participating in hundreds of charitable events throughout his career, including All for the Hall, the campaign to support the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris introduced country music to a broader audience by building bridges to folk, gospel, rock, and alternative music. She has sold millions of albums worldwide and claimed twelve Grammys in a career that now stretches over four decades. Elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008, she remains an inspiration to new generations of artists. Her latest album, All I Intended to Be, was released June 10. Emmylou is a champion of many humanitarian causes, including landmine removal and animal rescue.

Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas, who stands center stage before you now in the form of this new, masterful, and wide-ranging album, started his professional career when he was sixteen, the son of a steelworker, living in Warren, Ohio, and playing his instrument of choice, the Dobro, in bars. He has–like Glenn Gould as portrayed in the Concerto Diner–absorbed the sights and sounds around him and transmuted them into his own unique art by developing an eclectic style of playing and composing for the Dobro and other subspecies of resonator and slide guitars. His most clearly audible source is bluegrass—the genre in which he started and over which, if you ask me, he now presides. He has also conscripted and deployed: jazz, with its imperative to improvise; the raw emotion and twang of country music; the plaintive ragas of Indian sitars; Native American modal melodies; the sonata-allegro structures of classical music; Hawaiian music, with its sunny harmonies and marine swells; the note-packed virtuosities of Celtic tunes; woebegone New Orleans funeral marches; Dixieland’s brassiness; gospel; and the blues. In a word or three, just about everything.

About The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum
Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Country Music Hall of Fame^® and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The Museum’s mission is the preservation of the history of country and related vernacular music rooted in southern culture. With the same educational mission, the Foundation also operates CMF Records, the Museum’s Frist Library and Archive, CMF Press, Historic RCA Studio B, and Hatch Show Print.

More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame^® and Museum is available at www.countrymusichalloffame.com or by calling (615) 416-2001.