Hank Williams Jr. to Headline Fifth Annual
New Year’s Eve 'Bash on Broadway'
Nashville,
Tenn. – Grammy award-winning country
singer/songwriter Hank Williams Jr. will headline the fifth annual Music
City New Year’s Eve ‘Bash on Broadway’ event in downtown Nashville, the
Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp (NCVC) announced today. A city
that knows how to throw a good party, Music City will once again offer
one of the biggest New Year’s Eve celebrations in the country with
multiple days of free live music and Nashville’s own midnight “Music
Note Drop®.”
“Football, football and Hank! All our rowdy friends are staying over
this year,” said Butch Spyridon, president and CEO of the NCVC. “This
may be the best end-of-year “mash-up” we have ever had with the Titans,
the SEC and Hank ringing in the New Year. Are you ready?”
“This year is going to be very special on New Year’s Eve,” says Hank
Williams Jr. “December 31st will mark the 60th anniversary of daddy’s
death. For years, I have not performed on New Year’s Eve in honor of my
father, but this year is a monumental year in the history of Hank
Williams. If daddy would have lived, he would have been 90 years old
this year. I hope Music City is ready to boogie woogie, because Bocephus
is going bring the party to Nashville.”
Sponsors of this year’s New Year’s Eve ‘Bash on Broadway’ include
Miller Lite, Coors Light, Jack Daniel’s, Advance Financial 24/7 and
McDonald’s.
Announcement of additional artists will be forthcoming. For the latest details about talent and events, visit www.visitmusiccity.com/newyearseve.
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Hank Williams Jr.
Though he began his career in the shadow of his legendary father,
Hank Williams Jr. emerged as a formidable Country singer-songwriter in
his own right with 1960s hits such as “It’s All Over But The Crying” and
“Cajun Baby.” But things changed with the 1979 release of “Family
Tradition,” where he broke the Nashville mainstream by adopting a rebel
image and writing/recording in a style incorporating his Blues and
Southern Rock influences. The results were staggering as 42 Top-10 hits
followed, two CMA Entertainer of the Year honors, three ACM Entertainer
of the Year honors, multiple Grammy nominations and a Grammy award for
“There’s a Tear in My Beer”, a duet with his father using electronic
merging technology.
As groundbreaking as Hank Williams Jr. became, it wasn’t just his
performance that people took note about, but rather his songwriting that
became so notable. The driven musician penned hits songs year after
year scoring 20 BMI Awards. One of the arguably most-heard Country song
of modern times, the four-time Emmy award-winning “Are You Ready For
Some Football?,” which was heard nationally as the theme song of ABC and
ESPN’s Monday Night Football telecasts, was aired for 21 years.
As the accolades kept coming, Williams sold over 55 million albums,
achieving gold, platinum, and multi-platinum status along with 13 of
those albums hitting the no. 1 spot on the Billboard chart. In 2008,
Williams was honored with the BMI Icon award at the 56th annual BMI
Country Awards, joining an elite group of past honorees including Willie
Nelson, Merle Haggard and Dolly Parton.
The Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp
The mission of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp is to
maximize the economic contribution of the convention and tourism
industry to the community by developing and marketing Nashville as a
premier destination. Visit the NCVC’s website at www.visitmusiccity.com.
