{"id":4362,"date":"2025-07-08T14:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:06:09","slug":"country-legend-vince-gill-donates-1-7m-to-texas-flood-victims-but-what-he-did-next-left-everyone-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=4362","title":{"rendered":"Country Legend Vince Gill Donates $1.7M to Texas Flood Victims\u2014But What He Did Next Left Everyone in Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSMV-TV Channel 4 is thanking the Nashville music industry for all of its support of WSMV\u2019s telethon for flood relief, as well as the many viewers who called in pledges proving again the true spirit of Music City and all around the country. The telethon was streamed live via the internet and pledges came in from\u00a0 Canada, New York, Michigan, Sacramento and Key West among others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30522\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30522 perfmatters-lazy entered pmloaded\" title=\"scaled_e1273257736\" src=\"https:\/\/music-row-website-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10201546\/scaled_e1273257736.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30522\" data-src=\"https:\/\/music-row-website-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10201546\/scaled_e1273257736.jpg\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-30522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss and Vince Gill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWords cannot adequately express our gratitude to the singers, songwriters, musicians and technicians of Nashville for their instant response to the call to help our friends and neighbors in their time of need,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Elden Hale<\/strong>, Senior Vice President and General Manager of WSMV-TV Channel 4. \u201cWe would also like to thank the thousands of people who called into the telethon to make a donation. We sincerely thank everyone for their generosity.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_30521\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30521 perfmatters-lazy entered pmloaded\" title=\"scaled_e1273258008\" src=\"https:\/\/music-row-website-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10201547\/scaled_e1273258008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30521\" data-src=\"https:\/\/music-row-website-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/10201547\/scaled_e1273258008.jpg\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-30521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Grant and Vince Gill<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The telethon,\u00a0<em>Vince Gill and Friends<\/em>, officially raised more than 1.7 million dollars for Nashville and Middle Tennessee flood Relief.\u00a0That number will undoubtedly more than double when the checks and online donations that are still coming in are finally received.\u00a0WSMV has a long and rich history with the Nashville music community, with roots springing from the creation of the Grand Ole Opry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSMV-TV Channel 4 is thanking the Nashville music industry for all of its support of WSMV\u2019s telethon for flood relief, as well as the many viewers who&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}