Luke Bryan, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson Set For Toby Keith Benefit Concert

Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson and Eric Church are among the country stars who will pay tribute to Toby Keith at a benefit concert in Nashville next month.

“Toby Keith: American Icon,” to be performed at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on July 29, will also include performances by Darius Rucker, Ashley McBryde, Parker McCollum, the War and Treaty and other guests to be announced.

The benefit concert will raise money for the Toby Keith Foundation's OK Kids Korral, a no-cost home for families of children facing critical illnesses, as well as Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbiltone of the leading children's hospitals in Southeast Europe.

tickets for 'Toby Keith: American Icon' go on sale Friday, June 28 via Ticketmaster.

Jelly Roll, Wilson and Rucker were among several country singers who covered Keith's classics after his death in February at age 62 after a battle with stomach cancer. Since then, both the 2024 CMT Awards and the 2024 ACM Awards have held their own tributes to the polarizing “Should've Been a Cowboy” singer in the months since his death.

“I had been covering 'Should've Been a Cowboy' for about a year at most of my shows, just honoring Toby as he was getting sick before he died. That's when I really started to chew, man, what better place to honor Toby than Stagecoach?' Jelly roll previously he said Variety.

“I covered the song and Toby's son saw me on CMT and he pulled me aside and said, 'Hey man, I want to let you know that I've seen a video of you covering this song and I think it's one of the best versions ever. of. And I think you honor my father.' And it meant so much to me.”