Wynonna & Palmetto Perform at Nashville Benefit.
April 12, 2008

Palmetto State Quartet performed with Wynonna on Saturday, April 12th at Divas Nashvegas in Nashville, TN benefiting the Oasis Center. This year the event also featured Reba McEntire and Martina McBride. Joining Reba, Martina, Wynonna, and Palmetto State Quartet was the contemporary gospel singer Yolanda Adams, along with emcee Melissa Peterman who plays “Barbara Jean” on the sitcom Reba. Prior to dinner under an enormous tent at The Parthenon, guests gathered at the foot of Nashville’s very own golden diva—Athena—to kick off a night this city won’t soon forget!
Divas Nashvegas 2008 was a SOLD OUT event!

The mission of Oasis Center is to help youth grow, thrive and create positive change in their lives and in their community. Oasis Center began in 1969 as a grassroots-organized drop-in center that offered crisis intervention and counseling to Nashville’s marginalized youth. Over the past four decades, Oasis Center has grown into a leading provider of crisis services and leadership development opportunities for youth in Middle Tennessee.

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Palmetto performs with Wynonna at The Ryman Auditorium.
February 12, 2008

Palmetto State Quartet performed with Wynonna at the Ryman Auditorium for the Belmont University Presents Nashville Celebrates Elvis.   The group performed "How Great Thou Art" to a sold out crowd. 

The evening, emceed by Elvis’ high school friend and host on Sirius Radio’s Elvis Radio channel, featured Pat Boone, David Briggs (former Elvis’ band member and the evening’s musical director), Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Wanda Jackson, Millie Kirkham, Ronnie McDowell, The Palmetto State Quartet, T.G. Sheppard, former members of the Stamps Quartet, B.J. Thomas, Ray Walker of the Jordanaires and Wynonna. Briggs, D.J. Fontana, Joe Guercio, Ann Ellington Wagner and Walker all shared memories and stories of their time with Elvis as friends and colleagues with Klein throughout the show. The night’s house band was made up of musicians who recorded and toured with Elvis: James Burton (guitar), Larry Paxton (bass), Norbert Putnam (bass), Steve Turner (drums), Harold Bradley (acoustic guitar), Danny Parks (acoustic guitar), Shane Keister (synthesizer) and Briggs (grand piano).

The proceeds from the evening benefitted the Cecil Scaife Scholarship Endowment for the Music Business Program at Belmont. Scaife, who worked with Elvis in the 1950’s and 1960’s, was one of the original pioneers of the music business program at Belmont in 1971 that has grown into the world-renowned Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business. Belmont President Bob Fisher, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and Mary Morgan Ketchel, daughter of U.S. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn, were on hand to honor the Scaife family and thank them for their support of Belmont and the Nashville music industry for more than 50 years. Ketchel presented a proclamation Congresswoman Blackburn submitted to the congressional record in honor of the family and their support of Belmont.

Photo by Aaron Crisler/The Judy Nelon Group