The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's All for the Hall fundraiser will return to Los Angeles for the first time in nearly three years. The event, which will take place on Tuesday, March 4, at Club Nokia, will again follow a "guitar pull" format, featuring performances by Country Music Hall of Fame members Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Heart and Grammy Award-winning artist Jason Mraz. Acclaimed actress/singer/film producer Rita Wilson will host the event.
The evening offers a unique opportunity to see these acclaimed singer-songwriters interact with one another as they take turns swapping songs, stories and personal recollections. With Gill and Harris anchoring the lineup, new special guests each year ensure that the event is always one-of-a-kind; past participants include Jason Aldean, Gregg Allman, Zac Brown, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Patty Griffin, Levon Helm, Chris Isaak, Kris Kristofferson, Pat Monahan, Lionel Richie, Taylor Swift, Dwight Yoakam and more.
The "guitar pull" is a Nashville specialty; it originated in the homes of Nashville songwriters who gathered to try out new compositions for their peers. Nashville's most storied guitar pulls were hosted by Johnny and
June Carter Cash. The hallmarks of a great guitar pull are spontaneity and camaraderie.
The museum launched All for the Hall, its first-ever non-bricks-and-mortar fundraising campaign, in 2005. The campaign addresses the museum's need for long-term financial security and will provide a safety net for the institution and its work. This is the seventh year the museum has taken its "annual giving" event on the road, hosting previous All for the Hall events in New York in 2007, 2008 and 2013, and in Los Angeles in 2009-11.
"California, with its rich country music history, has proven to be a supremely appropriate and welcoming location for this event," said Museum Director Kyle Young. "In fact, some of the state's contributions to our genre are the subject of our very popular limited-engagement exhibition, The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens,
Merle Haggard and California Country, whose run we've extended through the end of 2014. Los Angeles has always given our All for the Hall event a very warm welcome, and we look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones in March."
Last year's event, held at the
Best Buy Theater in New York City, featured performances by Gill and Harris,
Jason Aldean, Gregg Allman, Rodney Crowell,
Ashley Monroe,
Pat Monahan and
Joan Osborne. CMT's Jim Allen wrote that "the evening was about the inspiration of the moment....Whether it was Gill digging into 'Ring of Fire' in honor of
Johnny Cash's birthday (joined by Harris and Crowell) or Aldean pitching in on both Allman's 'Midnight Rider' and Monahan's Train smash 'Drops of Jupiter,' the artists were more concerned with following their noses than following a script."
All for the Hall Los Angeles patrons are offered their choice of VIP tables of 10 for $25,000 or $10,000. Individual VIP tickets are available at $1,000 per seat. At these ticket levels, a cocktail reception and dinner will precede the guitar pull. A full list of VIP table and ticket levels and benefits can be found on
countrymusichalloffame.org/afthla. To purchase tickets or for more information, patrons may contact Rachel Shapiro at
rshapiro@countrymusichalloffame.org or telephone
(615) 416-2069.
Additionally, tickets for balcony seating (for the performance only) will go on sale on Friday, January 31, at 10:00 a.m. PST. Tickets, priced at $125, $95 $65 and $49.50, plus applicable fees, can be purchased via AXS.com or from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Mon. - Fri. at the STAPLES Center Box Office. The box office is located at 1111 S. Figueroa Street. Also, the Club Nokia Box Office is open for sales beginning at 5 p.m. on show days only.
All for the Hall Los Angeles is chaired by BMI President and CEO
Del Bryant and produced by CAA's Rod Essig, Vector Management's Ken Levitan and BMI's Jody Williams. The event is made possible by the generosity of
AEG Live and Club Nokia.
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