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Jun 15, 1998

The Dixie Chicks perform a free concert at Nashville's Centennial Park. The show is a benefit; they ask guests to bring instruments, sheet music or CDs for the city's W.O. Smith Music School

Jun 15, 1998

Billy Ray Cyrus swipes five trophies--Male Artist, Video, Single, Song and Album--at the TNN/Music City News Awards, held at the Nashville Arena. Neal McCoy earns Entertainer of the Year, and Brooks & Dunn are tabbed the fans' Favorite Duo

Jun 15, 1998

David Kersh reels in $35 when he auctions his toothbrush at Nashville's Hard Rock Cafe during Fan Fair. The money is donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, part of a total check for $3,500

Jun 15, 1998

Kevin Sharp injures his left hip during a performance at the TNN/Music City News Awards and ends up in the hospital for surgery

Jun 16, 1998

Artist manager Jack McFadden dies of liver cirrhosis in Nashville. During his career, his clients included Buck Owens, Keith Whitley, Merle Haggard, Lorrie Morgan and Billy Ray Cyrus, among others

Jun 16, 1998

Dolly Parton makes a surprise Fan Fair appearance at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds to sing "Jolene" with Lee Ann Womack

Jun 18, 1998

When Mindy McCready hosts a fan club breakfast at Nashville's Planet Hollywood during Fan Fair, her fiance, actor Dean Cain, stops by and signs autographs for more than an hour

Jun 18, 1998

Porter Wagoner interrupts the schedule at the Grand Ole Opry to bring two fans down front: Curt Wood gets on one knee to propose to Peggy Mercer. Quips Wagoner: "We marry 'em, divorce 'em, anything they want here at the Grand Ole Opry"

Jun 20, 1998

Reba McEntire sings "Fancy," Alabama performs "The Cheap Seats" and Wynonna delivers "Tell Me Why" as CBS shoots a concert special, "Country Fest '98," at Nashville's Gaylord Entertainment Center. Also on the bill: Clint Black, Steve Wariner, Neal McCoy, The Kinleys and Chris LeDoux

Jun 22, 1998

David Allan Coe gets married for the fifth time, to Rebecca Yvonne Smith, at Radnor Baptist Church in Nashville. They divorce the following March

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