Country's Big Kenny Meets U2's Bono During Oklahoma Concert Stop
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Posted by Lisa L. Rollins Oct 27, 2009 |
Country music's Big Kenny met U2's Bono at a concert stop in Norman, Okla., on Oct. 18. The two were introduced by a mutual friend due to their similar philanthropic passions.
Big Kenny's philanthropic efforts extend to the Southern region of Sudan, where he helped build the Kunyuk School for Girls in Akon in 2008, and to the American Appalachians, where he works to end mountaintop removal coal mining. His loveeverybody.com is a fledgling foundation that is generating good will throughout the community.
About Big Kenny's Music
As one half of the genre-bending super duo Big & Rich, "Big Kenny" Alphin sold in excess of five million albums, opened sold-out stadium tours for Kenny Chesney, hit the amphitheaters with Tim McGraw, graced the covers of Entertainment Weekly, Billboard, Country Weekly and was featured in such venerable magazines as Rolling Stone, People and many others. Big & Rich have been a mainstay on national TV having performed on every late night talk show, morning show and all things in between.
Also an accomplished songwriter, Big Kenny was named the BMI Songwriter of the Year in 2005, and has written several top 10 hits for artists such as Tim McGraw (Last Dollar Fly Away), Gretchen Wilson (Here For The Party) and Jason Aldean (Hicktown and Amarillo Sky).
Big Kenny will release his debut solo CD, The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy, on Nov. 10, 2009. The compilation features 10 songs written or co-written by Kenny and will be packaged in bio-degradable materials embedded with wildflower seeds suitable for planting. Kenny's new single, Long After I'm Gone, can be downloaded for free at his Web site.
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