Chris Young
Photo Credit: Donn Jones/CMA
The Country Music Association's CMA Foundation is donating $1.4 million to benefit music education programs for Nashville's
78,000 public school students. The announcement was made Tuesday night (Jan. 31) prior to the third CMA Keep the Music Playing
All Stars Concert at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville.
Chris Young hosted
the event with also featured
Suzy Bogguss and performance groups from 133 Metro Nashville
public schools. The $1.4 million donation includes $200,000 for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's Words & Music
program, which assists language arts and music teachers with classroom instruction in the basics of songwriting. With revenues
generated from the annual CMA Music Festival, the CMA's Keep the Music Playing program has now provided more than $6.1 million
to the public school system.
