Clint Black, Scotty McCreery, More Perform At CMHOFM ‘All For The Hall Dallas’ Benefit
Pictured (L-R): Scotty McCreery, Clint Black, Carly Pearce and Robert Earl Keen at “All for the Hall Dallas.” Photo: Celeste Smith for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Clint Black, Robert Earl Keen, Scotty McCreery and Carly Pearce took the stage at the second ever “All for the Hall Dallas” event on Tuesday night, (Sept. 10) at Gilley’s Dallas.
The intimate guitar pull and auction raised more than $375,000 for the nonprofit museum’s educational programs, including its flagship Words & Music program, which is provided within the Dallas Independent School District and beyond and promotes language arts by pairing professional songwriters with school classrooms to create original songs.
Black set the tone for the main event of “All for the Hall Dallas” as he chatted amiably with the crowd at Gilley’s Dallas before performing his first song, his 1997 hit “Something That We Do.” He made it clear that this concert would be an informal and intimate experience — just the performers, their guitars and their observations on music and life. The four artists traded songs they had written, and also plenty of humor throughout the 75-minute show.
For the audience at “All for the Hall Dallas,” those special moments also included Black encouraging the crowd to guess the rhymes in his 2015 song “Better and Worse;” Pearce refusing to play her final song until Black, who used his last song to cover Country Music Hall of Fame member Don Williams, sang his own classic, “Killin’ Time;” and Keen, despite the holidays still being more than two months away, jovially performing “Merry Christmas from the Family.”
The two-day musical event kicked off on Sept. 9, with a performance by Midland at a Patron Party at the home of Anne and Steve Stodghill, honorary co-chairs of the event.
