Tracy Lawrence & Nashville Community Rally To Bring In Over 2,400 Donated Turkeys In Hours

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Tracy Lawrence. Photo: Logan Vollmers

What started as a calamity at Tracy Lawrence‘s 20th Annual Mission:Possible Turkey Fry at the Nashville Fairgrounds yesterday (Nov. 25) ended up as a holiday miracle as Lawrence and the Nashville community rallied together to provide meals for 50,000 people in need.

A morning of prep turned to panic after discovering a refrigerated truck had broken, spoiling 650 turkeys out of the 3,600. Lawrence put a call out to social media, news outlets, artists and celebrities asking for donations to replenish the stock in order to reach their goal of feeding 36,000 people throughout Middle Tennessee. The response was immense, resulting in donations of over 2,400 turkeys, making the total of 5,350 cooked and frozen distributed turkeys.

Artists and celebrities came out to support the turkey fry, including Jamey Johnson, Tucker Wetmore, Charles Esten, Dustin Lynch, Meghan Patrick, John Crist, Rodney Atkins, Clint Black, Rhett Akins, Frank Ray and more. Wetmore surprised Lawrence with a drop off of over 100 turkeys, while Patrick also donated and took to her socials to encourage her community to support and donate. Monetary donations can still be made on behalf of Nashville Rescue Mission here.

Fans can continue to donate tonight at Lawrence’s benefit concert at Category 10, where he’ll perform along with Gretchen Wilson, Eric Paslay, Chris Cagle and special guests Halfway to Hazard. A canned food drive will take place at the show on behalf of Second Harvest Food Bank to help support families and individuals facing food insecurity.

Lorie Hollabaugh
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