Media Alert: NASCARR and Country Music Join Together for Fund-raising Effort

July 28, 2005
Contact:         Allen  Brown

                                                           RCA Label
Group

                                                            (615)
301-4340

 

                                                            Alice
Chapman

                                                            McNeely
Pigott & Fox

                                                            (615)
259-4000

 

 

                MEDIA ADVISORY

 

NASCAR(r) and Country Music Join Together for Fund-raising Effort

Nextel Sound and Speed Presented by SunTrust, a Motorsports and Music
Celebration 

Kickoff to be Held July 30, 2005

 

            NASCAR(r) drivers and Country Music icons will come together
in Nashville, Tenn., in January for a premier fund-raising event to
benefit Victory Junction Gang Camp and The Country Music Hall of Fame(r)
and Museum charities. Details surrounding Nextel Sound and Speed
Presented by SunTrust, a Motorsports and Music Celebration will be
announced at a news conference on Saturday, July 30, at 12:30 p.m. at
the Country Music Hall of Fame(r) and Museum in Nashville, Tenn.  Nextel
Communications and SunTrust Banks, Inc., are sponsoring the
fan-oriented, fund-raising event, scheduled for Jan. 13-14, 2006.  

             

 

What:             Kickoff of inaugural Nextel Sound and Speed Presented
by SunTrust, a

                        Motorsports and Music Celebration

 

Who:               Honorary Co-Chair and NASCAR Driver Kyle Petty

                        Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell

                        Nextel VP Direct Distribution and Nextel Cup
Business Development Frank Franzese

                        SunTrust Sr. VP, Director - Entertainment
Banking Group Brian Williams

                        Victory Junction Gang Camp Ambassadors

                        NASCAR Legends Richard Petty and Harry Gant

                        New Recording Artist and Sony/ATV Tree
Songwriter Taylor Swift

                        Division Guard of the 101st Airborne at Fort
Campbell

 

Where:            Country Music Hall of Fame(r) and Museum

 

When:             12:30 p.m., Saturday, July 30, 2005

 

The July 30 news conference, which is open to the public, will take
place in front of the Museum. Also 250 motorcyclists involved in a
cross-country ride to benefit Victory Junction Gang Camp will make a
pit-stop at the event. 

 

 

 

 

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