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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 17, 1998

Doug and Beth Stone have a daughter, Baily Rebecca, in Springfield, Tennessee

Jun 18, 1998

Gary Allan stops his show at a club in Louisville to allow his soundman, Pete McDonough, to propose to his girlfriend, Betsey Swanson

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"

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