Red Wine and Brew, Local Heroes Benefit is excited to bring nationally known, country superstars, to LaPorte, Indiana on June 28th, 29th and 30th of 2024 to Headline the Red Wine and Brew, Local Heroes Benefit for First Responders of LaPorte County. Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry will headline on Friday 6/28.
This local heroes benefit is held at “The Summit” in LaPorte County and tickets start at just $30 with special discounts for first responders and active healthcare and military.
Tickets are online at www.universe.com/redwineandbrew
Since 2015, Local Hero Benefit Events of Bethany Church have given back over $165,000 to First Responders of La Porte County, Indiana.Thanks to benefit sponsors and ticket buyers these appreciation events have become the largest local heroes recognition and benefit events in our region. Seven vehicles have also been given to winners of the heroes raffle or almost $80,000 in prizes to lucky raffle winners.
To reach out for more info or arrange for artist interviews, please contact Carey Garwood of Bethany Church at 219-363-8060.
With 20 plus charted singles, Eddie Montgomery, a Kentucky native, has earned CMA, ACM, and GRAMMY awards and nominations with undeniable blue
collar anthems like “Hell Yeah,” “My Town,” and “Hillbilly Shoes.” They’ve notched five No. 1 singles, “If You Ever Stop Loving Me,” “Something To Be Proud Of,” “Lucky Man,” “Back When I Knew It All” and “Roll With Me.” He recently released, “Outskirts”, a seven song EP. It is by tragic circumstance that Eddie is now a solo artist, losing Troy Gentry to a helicopter crash in 2017 still hits hard. “Ain’t a day goes by that I don’t think of him,” he says. “We made a promise, a deal, way back when. It was over Jim Beam. It was: If one of us goes down, we want Montgomery Gentry to go on. Keep the music going. We were a honky-tonk band, and he’s with me, and he’s always going to be.” He smiles. “We were together so much, we finished each other’s sentences and everything,” a brotherhood that remains in his solo billing: “It’s always going to be ‘Eddie Montgomery of Montgomery Gentry.’” The promise to keep on going is proclaimed in full MG-style in the first cut, “Ain’t No Closing Me Down,” a rock-driven dose of barroom braggadocio that sprung from his holing up at home located on the outskirts of a golf course during the pandemic. “After the corona hit, I got a bunch of grills and stuff. I pulled my truck out of the garage. I was puttin’ up TVs, got a PA in my garage. I got one of those glass, commercial refrigerators in there. And people started coming to the house.” While the world was shut down, Eddie welcomed all comers. Nobody was closin’ him down. Golfers would climb off the course to visit, joining other friends from miles around. “I’d always be grilling. They’d come up and grab a hamburger or some ribs, a Jim Beam and a beer.”