Kentucky
Kentucky State Fair, country artist raising funds for flood relief
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As japanese Kentucky works to recuperate from devastating flooding, the Kentucky State Truthful and others are getting concerned to assist impacted households.
Nation music star T. Graham Brown loaded his tour bus with provides and headed to japanese Kentucky after lethal flooding swept away houses and companies.
“It’s unbelievable,” he mentioned in a video shared on Fb from Perry County. “We’ve toured three counties right now. The devastation is actual.”
The Tennessee musician, who sings the music “Hell and Excessive Water,” is promoting t-shirts and mentioned all proceeds will go to aid efforts.
Nation artist T. Graham Brown is promoting t-shirts to boost funds for flood aid efforts. (Photograph by T. Graham Brown)
The shirts are $25 and are printed with “Come Hell or Excessive Water Kentucky Sturdy.”
The shirts might be on sale on the Kentucky State Truthful at every of the Texas Roadhouse Live performance Sequence exhibits within the artist merchandise space.
“We’ve bought manner, far more than we ever dreamed that we might promote and we bought them everywhere in the world,” Brown advised Spectrum Information 1 Friday. “The persons are going to be hurting for a very long time so we’re simply hoping individuals will hold shopping for them.”
In the meantime, the Kentucky State Truthful mentioned it has partnered with 4-H and Danny Wimmer Presents to raffle off two sold-out Past VIP passes to the Bourbon and Past live shows in September.
The proceeds will go to the Kentucky 4-H Aid Fund, in keeping with Melissa Miller, govt director of the Kentucky 4-H Basis.
“It is going to go particularly to 4-H’ers and their households who’ve misplaced their houses, misplaced their barns, misplaced their animals,” she mentioned. “We’re already getting requests from 4-H’ers for these funds.”
Ian Cox, spokesperson for the truthful, mentioned tickets are $100 every.
The objective is to boost $100,000 for impacted 4-H households by promoting 1,000 raffle tickets, organizers mentioned.
“It’s an incredible deal,” he mentioned. “These tickets have a price effectively over $1,000. It’s an incredible expertise to come back collectively, have a good time good music, have good meals and in addition assist these in japanese Kentucky.”