Jake Owen Honored For His Work With St. Jude

The St. Jude Country Cares for Kids Seminar took place in Memphis over the weekend with our very own team on hand to witness some very special moments.

Stars were there to meet with the patients

 

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Happy, Honest, Brave, Strong…. These kids at St Judes in Memphis are incredible….

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Michael Ray, Jake Owen and Clint Black  sang Alabama’s “Lady Down on Love” to Randy Owen to honor the legendary country star who started the Country Cares For Kids Radiothon

and Jake Owen was honored himself by Randy with the Angels Among Us Award.

Jake shared, “I’ve always believed that country music is songs for the family, songs for the people. I believe that it just goes hand in hand with the mission for St Jude, as far as lending a helping hand. I think you hear those types of sentiments in a lot of country songs. I think they’re just relatable.”

Randy Owen was additionally honored with a room at St. Jude now named after him.

 

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@thealabamaband member Randy Owen now has a room for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital patients and their families named in his honor. The Country Cares for St. Jude Kids founder learned of the news during a press conference on Friday (Jan. 25), during the Country Cares Seminar in Memphis, Tenn. Owen founded Country Cares — a program that unites country radio stations, the genre’s artists and industry members to raise money for St. Jude — in 1989. In the program’s 30 years, it’s raised more than $800 million to help St. Jude treat the patients with pediatric cancer and other life-threatening diseases who walk through its doors, and research cures for those diseases. “The most important thing I’ll ever do, apart from being a father and a husband, is helping children at St. Jude,” Owen says. “Over the past 30 years, I’ve watched children at St. Jude grow up to be happy, healthy adults. This room dedication shows that the country music industry has made a true impact, and I’m glad I could be part of that.” Adds Richard Shadyac Jr., president and CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude, “Randy Owen has rallied the country music community like no other for 30 years to make a tremendous difference in helping St. Jude fulfill its lifesaving mission for our patients and their families. He is proof, like our founder Danny Thomas was, that one person can make a remarkable difference in this world … We are forever indebted to Randy and his family for their years of generosity.” A series of fundraising radiothons, held annually by more than 200 country radio stations across the country, is the anchor of the Country Cares for St. Jude Kids program. The year’s efforts begin each January with the Country Cares Seminar, during which nearly 1,000 country radio programmers, media members and artists gather in Memphis. Although Country Cares began with Owen, he made sure to emphasize, during the press conference, that the effort and the money raised goes far beyond him: “It’s about ‘we’, not ‘me,'” he noted. #randyowen #alabama #countrycares #stjude #theboot360

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God Bless our country stars for their dedication to the kids at St. Jude

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