CCM superstar Michael W. Smith will headline a drive-in concert at Franklin, Tennessee’s Williamson County Ag Expo Center on Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 7 p.m. CT (gates opening at 5 p.m. CT). Fans can watch the concert from the safety of their cars, with concert audio available via a designated FM radio channel. LED screens will be mounted as well.

“This is going to be a fun night. I am so excited to see everyone, perform and lead worship in person again,” Smith says. “I just think it is going to be so unique, a night we will all remember.”

Since full-scale concerts have been halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Smith has hosted weekly at-home concerts, titled “Worship Around the World,” via social media, drawing millions of viewers. Smith recently earned his first non-holiday Billboard No. 1 hit since 2004, with “Waymaker.”

Tickets for the show will be $40 per vehicle, and a portion of the proceeds will be dedicated to benefit Rocketown, which Smith founded in 1994 as a faith-based outreach facility in Nashville to serve youth. Rocketown offers live music, after school enrichments for youth and creative arts programs.

Some artists are offering drive-in concert shows as a way to offer live concerts to fans, with a way to have fans congregate while meeting social distancing safety measures.

Last week, Keith Urban hosted a live concert at Watertown’s Stardust Drive-In Theater, to honor Vanderbilt Medical workers. It was also announced that Eli Young Band will be among the artists performing a series of drive-up concerts at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.

Thomas Rhett has postponed his The Center Point Road Tour to 2021. The tour will launch next year with Cole Swindell, with additional shows and opening acts to announced in the next few weeks. Thomas Rhett made the announcement on social media on Tuesday (May 19).

“Hometeam, it has been a wild few months. I pray each and every one of you are well,” said Thomas Rhett to his fans. “I hope that those who can be are safely at home with their families, and to those of you who are on the front lines – our health care workers, our delivery drivers, grocery store workers and everyone else working in our communities – thank you for keeping our country going during this time.”

“We have made the decision to reschedule my 2020 concert dates to 2021,” he continued. “This decision was made with the health, safety and well-being of our fans, touring crew and venue staff as our priority. If you’re able to come out in 2021, your tickets will be honored and if you need a refund, you’ll be receiving an email soon from your point of purchase with instructions. I miss seeing y’all out on the road and can’t wait until we are back in your neck of the woods next summer. I’ll keep writing songs and making music, hoping to hear your voices singing back to me next year louder than ever.”

Rescheduled The Center Point Road show dates are below:
6/3/21- Gilford, NH @ Bank of NH Pavilion*
6/4/21- Gilford, NH @ Bank of NH Pavilion*
6/10/21- Syracuse, NY @ St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview
6/11/21- Burgettstown, PA @ S&T Bank Music Park
6/12/21- Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
6/17/21- Indianapolis, IN @ Ruoff Music Center
6/18/21- Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center
6/19/21- Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center
7/9/21- Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion
7/10/21- Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek
7/15/21- Birmingham, AL @ Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
7/16/21- St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
7/29/21- Sacramento, CA – Toyota Amphitheatre
7/30/21- Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
8/5/21- Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater
8/20/21- Bangor, ME – Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion
8/21/21- Hartford, CT @ Xfinity Theatre
8/22/21- Canandaigua, NY @ The Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center
8/26/21- Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
8/27/21- Philadelphia, PA @ BB&T Pavilion
8/28/21- Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
TBD Boise, ID @ Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
TBD Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre
TBD Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
*Dates do not include Cole Swindell

Brandi Carlile, Caylee Hammack, Caleb Lee Hutchinson, Kevn Kinney, and Michelle Malone have been added to the lineup of artists on the upcoming seventh annual “Gretsch Presents Georgia On My Mind” online concert benefiting the Georgia Music Foundation on May 26.

The streaming fundraiser will be hosted by Georgia-born musicians Brent Cobb and Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) and will also feature performances by Caroline Aiken, Tony Arata, John Berry, Kristian Bush’s band Dark Water, Amy Grant, Rutha Harris, John Driskell Hopkins, Indigo Girls, Kalen & Aslyn, Chuck Leavell, Kim Michael Polote, Katie Pruitt, The War & Treaty, Jontavious Willis, Channing Wilson, and Adam Wright.

“Gretsch Presents Georgia On My Mind” will be streamed on facebook.com/georgiamusic and georgiamusic.org. The fundraiser will be a musical and visual love letter to the Peach State, the Georgia Music Foundation, and the programs that are beneficiaries of the funds throughout the state. The show is usually held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The city is a home-away-from-home for numerous Georgia-born singers and songwriters including former hosts The Peach Pickers (Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, and Ben Hayslip), who turned the reins over to Cobb and Ray this year. Concerns for public safety and COVID-19 prompted organizers to reimagine the event this year as an online concert.

Gretsch Executive Vice President/CFO Dinah Gretsch, who is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Music Foundation explained, “The proceeds fund the Foundation’s annual grants for music programs at schools and non-profit organizations all over the state. My husband, Fred, and I believe that the music industry and non-profit organizations like this one will need our support now more than ever, and we’re proud to make it possible to take this concert online and share it with even more people.”