Featuring a pro-am golf tournament and two all-star concerts, annual Sacramento event brings together artists, and altruism- has raised a million and a half dollars since inception
For more than a dozen years, the Haggin Oaks Golf Complex, the Morton Golf Foundation and KNCI 105.1 FM have proudly hosted the Golf and Guitars Music Festival and Children’s Charity Concert in Sacramento, CA, raising well over one million dollars for charity along the way. This year’s Golf and Guitars event was held on October 18 and 19, 2021, with more than 20 country artists and singer/songwriters donating their musical support to the cause.
Walker Hayes, Love & Theft, Elvie Shane, Jameson Rodgers, Jason Michael Carroll, Lainey Wilson, Priscilla Block Erin Enderlin and Texas Hill were among the musicians who performed during the two-day event. Hayes’ rendition of the TikTok’s #1 worldwide phenomenon song “Fancy Like” was met with the evening’s largest singalong. The event kicked off with a VIP party on Monday night, including a singer/songwriter showcase with some of the nation’s best and most-heralded songwriters, including NBC’s Songland winner Griffen Palmer. Tuesday’s activities included a silent auction, a charity golf tournament featuring professional golfers and golf-loving country artists alike, and a star-studded main concert held under the stars in a main stage built on the 17th tee box.
Funds raised by the annual event were split between the Morton Golf Foundation — a non-profit corporation that provides funds to help enrich the lives of the less fortunate through healthy outdoor activities like golf — and the artists’ children-focused charities of choice. The Morton Golf Foundation funds programs offering a healthy outdoor recreational environment that stresses the building of lasting personal relationships while seamlessly instilling life’s core values for the youth, disabled, and under-served communities of Sacramento. Programs that receive monies from the funds include California Eagles (the first and largest Special Olympics golf program in the country), Swing Club for the Blind, Saving Strokes (for stroke victims), PGA Hope (for veterans), First Tee of Greater Sacramento, minority scholarship programs, college scholarships, golf grants and more. Artist charities that also received funds included St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Down Syndrome Association of South Texas, Trail Youth, Augies Quest to Cure ALS and more.
For more information contact:
Ken Morton, Jr. – 916-808-0952
kmortonjr@hagginoaks.com
