LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As eastern Kentucky works to recover from devastating flooding, the Kentucky State Fair and others are getting involved to support impacted families.
Country music star T. Graham Brown loaded his tour bus with supplies and headed to eastern Kentucky after deadly flooding swept away homes and businesses.
“It’s unbelievable,” he said in a video shared on Facebook from Perry County. “We’ve toured three counties today. The devastation is real.”
The Tennessee musician, who sings the song “Hell and High Water,” is selling t-shirts and said all proceeds will go to relief efforts.
The shirts are $25 and are printed with “Come Hell or High Water Kentucky Strong.”
The shirts will be on sale at the Kentucky State Fair at each of the Texas Roadhouse Concert Series shows in the artist merchandise area.
“We’ve sold way, way more than we ever dreamed that we would sell and we sold them all over the world,” Brown told Spectrum News 1 Friday. “The people are going to be hurting for a long time so we’re just hoping people will keep buying them.”
Meanwhile, the Kentucky State Fair said it has partnered with 4-H and Danny Wimmer Presents to raffle off two sold-out Beyond VIP passes to the Bourbon and Beyond concerts in September.
The proceeds will go to the Kentucky 4-H Relief Fund, according to Melissa Miller, executive director of the Kentucky 4-H Foundation.
“It will go specifically to 4-H’ers and their families who have lost their homes, lost their barns, lost their animals,” she said. “We’re already getting requests from 4-H’ers for those funds.”
Ian Cox, spokesperson for the fair, said tickets are $100 each.
The goal is to raise $100,000 for impacted 4-H families by selling 1,000 raffle tickets, organizers said.
“It’s a great deal,” he said. “These tickets have a value well over $1,000. It’s a great experience to come together, celebrate good music, have good food and also support those in eastern Kentucky.”