Big & Rich
will be presented the Country Radio Broadcasters' CRS 2013 Artist Humanitarian
Award on Feb. 27 during the annual Country Radio Seminar in Nashville. The duo will be honored for their humanitarian efforts
that range from visiting individual patients in hospitals to staging benefit concerts for the Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum and the 173rd Airborne Memorial Fund. They've also been involved in efforts to help underprivileged children and families
in Uganda, Sudan, Haiti and Kenya and support numerous other charities, including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Vanderbilt
Children's Hospital, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Project Clean Water, the Special Olympics, Second Harvest
Food Bank and the Nashville Symphony. Previous recipients of the Artist Humanitarian Award include
Rascal
Flatts,
Tim McGraw and
Faith Hill,
Trace
Adkins,
Randy Owen,
Toby Keith,
Brad
Paisley,
Brooks & Dunn,
Reba McEntire
and
Garth Brooks, among others. Country Radio Seminar, a gathering of radio programmers
and executives, takes place Feb. 27-March 1.
