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In October Hurricane Michael, the worst storm to ever hit the gulf coast of Florida, brought heart-breaking devastation to the small beach towns of Pt St Joe and Mexico Beach. With 155 mph winds and huge storm surge, Michael caused the death of at least 36 lives across the south, left countless people without homes and caused millions of dollars in damages The destruction in Pt St Joe and Mexico Beach where the storm came ashore was especially vicious and left the ‘forgotten coast’, this last bastion of ‘old Florida’, looking like a war zone. Houses were leveled, ancient oaks were uprooted, palm trees snapped like twigs.The tourist economy of these little towns has been decimated.
The ties between country music and this special part of Florida run deep. The Brothers Osborne recorded their most recent CD there and called the record “Pt St Joe”. Many country artists, writers and producers have houses on Cape San Blas, the cape that creates Pt St Joe harbor. Luke Bryan mother has a home in Mexico Beach that was badly damaged in the storm.
Pt St Joe and Mexico Beach have also been the gracious hosts for the last ten years of the popular songwriter festival, Blast On the Bay, which features some of Nashville biggest hitmakers. Hurricane Michael actually struck just 2 days before the 2018 Blast On The Bay was to start and stopped this year’s festival in it’s tracks.
Now Nashville wants to help. On Tuesday November 27th at 7 o’clock the writers from Blast On The Bay, along with GoLong Entertainment and BMI, are holding the Hurricane Michael Relief Benefit Show at 3rd & Lindsley, one of Nashville’s premier nightclubs. There will be performances by roughly 20 of Nashville’s most successful tunesmiths, including Earl Bud Lee, Jesse Rice, Danny Myrick, Kent Blazy, Will Rambeaux, Tyler Reeve, Brett Jones, Jerry Salley, Tim Buppert, Wil Nance, Steve Williams, Sherrie’ Austin, just to name a few. The show will also feature a set by the Currys from Pt St Joe performing songs from their new album “This Side Of The Glass”, with Vinyl Radio, Nashville’s favorite retro rockers closing out the night.There will be small door charge and donations can be made thru out the evening. All proceeds will go directly to those hardest hit in Pt St Joe and Mexico Beach.
The Florida panhandle has been very good to the music community of Nashville and this will be a chance for Nashville to open it’s heart and give back. Let’s not forget the ‘forgotten coast’.