Thanks to Anne and Steve Stodghill and Nashville’s not-for-profit Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, North Texans will have the chance to get up close and personal with C&W superstar Vince Gill as well as Midland, the flat-out coolest Texas country band around.
Both will appear here in September as part of All for the Hall Dallas, a special, two-day fundraising event benefiting the HoF and Museum’s educational programs. Launched in 2007, the All for the Hall concert series now alternates between New York, Los Angeles, Nashville and Dallas. The Stodghills masterminded the inaugural Dallas event back in 2021, hosting a patron party at their home with a backyard performance by Trisha Yearwood followed the next day by dinner and a concert by Brooks & Dunn at The Statler Dallas.
At an outdoor announcement event at the Stodghill home tonight, it was revealed that All for the Hall would make its return to Dallas on September 9 and 10, with the Stodghills serving as honorary co-chairs. The pre-concert patron party will be held again at the couple’s manse on Monday the 9th, featuring music by the Dripping Springs group Midland, whose debut song “Drinkin’ Problem” was certified double Platinum in 2019. The next night, Gill and some yet-to-be-named artists will star in a post-dinner “guitar pull” at Gilley’s Dallas. Previous participants in Gill’s All for the Hall “pulls” have included Luke Combs, Kacey Musgraves and Taylor Swift.
Money from the fundraiser will help the Museum provide its curriculum-based education program, called Words & Music, at schools within the Dallas Independent School District at no cost.
Attending tonight’s announcement were the event’s 2024 Co-Chairs Lisa Arpey and Vikram Agrawal, the HOF and Museum’s Lisa Purcell and Ben Hall, Stubbs Davis and Sunie and Steve Solomon. Entertainment was provided by Stevie Woodward, Natalie Stovall and Jennifer Wayne of the group Runaway June, an up-and-coming, Chicks-like trio best known for their Top 5 hit, “Buy My Own Drinks.”