Country News From Chris Janson to Alan Jackson

Chris Janson donated all the money from merchandise sales at a recent show to those recently affected by flooding in West Virginia. He said he has played there many times and was treated like family. Brad Paisely, who is from West Virginia, has a ‘go fund me’ page asking to raise $1 million for those in need.

The 2016 Buckle Up Country Music Festival, set to take place Aug. 5-6 in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been canceled. A number of multi-day country music festivals have been canceled in 2016 already: In February, DegaJam sent for Talladega Super Speedway in Alabama canceled its inaugural event, which Eric Church, Blake Shelton and Toby Keith were set to headline, and the second annual FarmBorough Festival at Randell Island, New York, which would have featured Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Brantley Gilbert and more, also called it quits, just a week after tickets went on sale. The 2016 Big Barrel Country Music Festival in Dover, Delaware, set to feature Church, Paisley and Sam Hunt, canceled in January.

A very special piece of Alan Jackson‘s career is featured in a new exhibit on display now at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. Jackson is one of more than 50 artists featured in Louder Than Music: Rock, Power & Politics, an exhibit that walks viewers through the times when political activism has merged with music. The country icon’s contribution is the Jim Triggs guitar that he used to perform “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)”

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