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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
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