Bob Kingsley Living Legend Award recipients
l to r: Lorianne Crook (2017); Sandi Spika Borchetta;
Scott Borchetta (2025); Charlie Chase (2017);
Sarah Trahern (2024)
l to r: Maurice Miner (event producer); Sandi Spika Borchetta;
Scott Borchetta; Heather McBee (event producer);
Marcel Pariseau (event producer); John Zarling (event producer);
Nan Kingsley
Among the artists and special guests who participated in the evening with performances, appearances and taped messages were Wynonna, Reba McEntire, Carly Pearce, Randy Travis, Marty Stuart, Brett Young, Justin Moore, Tracy Lawrence, The Band Perry, Jackson Dean, Preston Cooper, Terri Clark, Jack Ingram, Jimmy Wayne, Jessica Andrews, TK Kimbrell, Erik Logan, Brian Phillips, Ray Pronto, and Rutherford County’s Riverdale High School Marching Band.
The Bob Kingsley Living Legend Award was established a decade ago to celebrate the remarkable career of veteran country radio broadcaster Bob Kingsley. Last night’s event raised three-and-a-half times as much as any other previous night in the event’s decade long history.
Other prestigious honorees include Joe Galante (2015), Jim Ed Norman (2016), Lorianne Crook & Charlie Chase (2017), Clarence Spalding (2018), Lon Helton (2019), Bart Herbison & Erika Wollam Nichols (2023) and Sarah Trahern (2024).
The Opry Trust Fund was formed in 1965, the Opry’s 40th birthday, by Opry management as a means to help those in the Country music industry who have fallen on hard times. The purpose of the fund is to give financial assistance in time of need, emergency or catastrophe to people who were or are actively engaged in the country music industry. Most often, disbursements help pay medical bills and living expenses for people that are undergoing medical care and unable to work.
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