The late singer-songwriter Toby Keith will be celebrated with stars at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on July 29 when the special concert Toby Keith: American Icon filmed live on location.
Keith's fellow artists Jelly Roll, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Ashley McBryde, Parker McCollum, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson and The War and Treaty are among those who will gather for the special Life and Legacy concert of the Oklahoma native. Kith.
Toby Keith: American Icon will air on NBC on Wednesday, August 28, from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET/PT.
tickets for Toby Keith: American Icon on sale Friday, June 28, at Ticketmaster at 10 a.m. CT. A portion of ticket sales will benefit the Toby Keith Foundation's OK Kids Korral, which provides a free home for families of critically ill children, while funds will also benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital. at Vanderbilt in Nashville.
Keith, who will be posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year, is known for such hits as “Should've Been a Cowboy,” “How Do You Like Me Now?!”, “American Soldier” and “Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American).” He has had 20 No. 1 hits Advertising signon the Country Airplay chart and is a member of the all-genre Songwriters Hall of Fame (inducted in 2015) and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (2021). He also won a National Medal of Arts in 2021 and was named a BMI Icon (2022).
Keith died in February aged 62 after a battle with stomach cancer.
The live concert event and NBC special is produced by UMG Nashville's Sing Me Back Home Productions and ITV America's Thinkfactory Media, in association with Alex Coletti Productions. Cindy Mabe, Dawn Gates and Harper Grae are executive producers for Sing Me Back Home Productions in association with Mercury Studios executive producers Alice Webb and Barak Moffitt. Adam Reed and Jordana Hochman are executive producers for Thinkfactory, while Coletti is an executive producer for Alex Coletti Productions. TK Kimbrell and RA Clark are also executive producers, while Mercury Studios represents “Toby Keith: American Icon” for international sales and distribution. The show and special are packaged by Keith's longtime label UTA, while the concert at Bridgestone Arena is promoted by Live Nation.
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