The Heroes Salute gala is the showcase of the Nashville Connection — Heroes Salute, and it’s what we are all about. Here we honor our veterans and enjoy a great concert performed by an A-list performer in an intimate setting. The Gala will take place at the TD Convention Center near the downtown Greenville airport.
Starring Darryl Worley
Through five albums and seventeen chart hits, Darryl Worley has produced one of the most impressive and wide-ranging catalogs in contemporary music. He has for ten years been a mainstay of modern country, a distinctive singer and first-rate songwriter whose music has chronicled life, love and the world situation with equal facility.
He has topped the charts with singles including “I Miss My Friend,” “Awful, Beautiful Life” and “Have You Forgotten?” which accomplished the feat for one, two and an incredible seven weeks respectively. He hit the Top 20 with the first three singles from his impressive major-label debut, Hard Rain Don’t Last – “When You Need My Love,” “A Good Day to Run” and “Second Wind” and followed with smashes like “If Something Should Happen,” “I Just Came Back From A War” and the iconic “Tennessee River Run.”
Along the way, he has sold nearly two million albums, earned nominations for five major ACM and CMA awards, including “Song of the Year” and “Single of the Year,” and has written songs for other major artists, including George Jones.
Now, with the release of his sixth album, Sounds Like Life, Worley reasserts himself as one of country’s true creative forces. Sounds like Life showcases Worley as a songwriter of depth and passion and a singer whose versatility and believability have grown stronger through the years. The project is a microcosm of his life and career, with the sometimes rocky, sometimes triumphant road he’s traveled infusing every track, and it bears both the sense of detail and the universality we’ve come to expect from the 6’6“ hit-maker.
Darryl Worley has not wavered in his support for those who put their lives on the line for democracy. It is telling that Worley was quick to turn his celebrity to good purpose. In 2002, he traveled to Afghanistan, Kuwait and Uzbekistan to entertain troops, and the experience was transforming. He wrote “Have You Forgotten?” and began a series of visits here and overseas, including to Iraq, to support those who wear their country’s uniform.
He calls those trips “the best work I’ve done since I’ve been in this business. I’ve never done it for accolades or for publicity. I do it because I want to do it.” Darryl has also set up the Darryl Worley Foundation to help medical facilities and those affected by cancer.
You can read more at his official website.
Featuring Mike Corrado
A nationally recognized singer-songwriter (featured on CNN, ABC, CBS and in Rolling Stone magazine) and U.S. Marine, Mike Corrado wrote “Still In The Fight” as a way to draw attention to the struggles many service men and women face after being wounded in combat.
“‘Still In The Fight’ is dedicated to our Wounded Warriors, who have sacrificed so much for their country, and for their amazing strength, spirit and resilience,” says Corrado. “Though they may be far from the battlefield, their fight for recovery continues. For those ‘Still In The Fight,’ this is their fight song.”
The video features three amazing and heroic wounded warriors; Marine Master Sergeant William “Spanky” Gibson who lost his leg to a sniper round in Iraq then was the first Marine to re-deploy back to combat with a prosthetic leg, Marine Corporal Aaron Mankin who suffered severe burns and is one of a few survivors in an amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) he was riding in hit a massive improvised explosive device (IED) in Iraq and Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter who suffered injuries after absorbing about 99% of a grenade blast in Afghanistan. This song & video are dedicated to all the wounded warriors, past and present.
Recorded at Whitestone Studios, Greenville, SC July 2011.
Download “Still In The Fight” on iTunes. Proceeds benefit the Fisher House Foundation; they provide a “home away from home” for military families to be close to a loved one during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury
For more information please visit:
http://www.mikecorrado.com
http://www.facebook.com/corradomusic
http://www.facebook.com/stillinthefight
Song Credits: Produced by Noel Golden | Written by: Mike Corrado © 2011 | Published by Grunt Tunes, Intl/BMI | All rights reserved
Video credits: Director/DP: Gerard Elmore | Editor: Seong Kyu | Producer: Gerard Elmore, Mike Corrado, Mericia Palma Elmore | Artwork & illustrations by: Michael Fay & Robert Bates
Special Appearance by Martha Reeves 
The Motown songstress who’s main performance will be at the Hanging with the Best June 29, 2012 will also make a special guest appearance at the Heroes Salute. Best known for the classic “Dancing in the Streets”, Martha and the Vandellas have also recorded hits like “Jimmy Mack”, “Heatwave”, “My Baby Loves Me”, and “Nowhere to Run.” Still going strong, she just released “The Definitive Collection” in 2009 and will be embarking on an European tour this year. For more info, visit www.missmarthareeves.com.
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