Vince Gill will serve as the featured performer at Nashville Symphony’s 2025 Symphony Fashion Show on April 29 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Alongside Gill’s performance will be a runway show of the fall/winter 2025 collection of evening wear designer Pamella Roland.
Gill currently boasts 22 Grammy Awards, the most by any solo male country artist, along with eight ACM Awards and 18 CMA Awards, including two Entertainer of the Year honors and five consecutive Male Vocalist of the Year wins. He served as the host of the CMA Awards from 1992 to 2003. In 2017, Gill was invited to join the Eagles on tour and remains a member of the iconic band’s lineup.
The evening will be guided by emcee Tracy Kornet, a seven-time Emmy-winning anchor for Nashville’s NBC affiliate, WSMV. With nearly 30 years of experience in television news, Kornet has stepped in for Barbara Walters as host of The View, interviewed three sitting U.S. presidents and anchored one of the 2020 presidential debates.
“The 20th anniversary of the Symphony Fashion Show is an important milestone, and our 2025 event chairs, Katie Crumbo and Laurie Seabury, have planned a beautiful evening with an impressive lineup of talent to support the Nashville Symphony’s vital education and community engagement programs,” shares Nashville Symphony President and CEO Alan D. Valentine. “Vince Gill is a longtime Nashville philanthropist and one of the city’s most talented and best-known voices, and Tracy Kornet is a trusted fixture in our community and on our televisions every evening. It is a joy and honor to welcome them both, alongside world-class designer Pamella Roland, to make the 20th annual Symphony Fashion Show the success we know it will be.”
“The Nashville Symphony is one of Nashville’s greatest treasures,” adds Gill. “I was fortunate enough to be in the audience the night the Schermerhorn Symphony Center first opened. And as a performer, I find the acoustics of the room inspiring. So, it’s always fun for me when I get to perform on that stage. I’m honored to be invited to participate in their annual fundraiser.”
“The Symphony Fashion Show is one of Nashville’s favorite fundraisers, combining timeless fashion and amazing music for the city’s most stylish arts supporters,” says Crumbo and Seabury. “It is an honor to welcome back Pamella Roland for the 20th anniversary, Tracy Kornet is the consummate hostess, and we can’t wait to be serenaded by Vince Gill! It will truly be an evening to remember, and we’re excited to share it with Nashville.”
The Symphony Fashion Show was launched in 2006 to raise awareness and funds for the Nashville Symphony and its educational and community outreach programs, which benefit over 55,000 students and adults each year.
Patrons packages for the Symphony Fashion Show are on sale now, with general admission tickets on sale March 19.
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