Keith Urban photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.

The building that houses country music’s family treasures just got a big infusion of cash.

Keith Urban and Vince Gill played hosts Tuesday night at All For The Hall, a multi-artist concert at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Country Music Hall of Fame. The arena and the hall share an intersection in Music City, and the artists who paraded across the Bridgestone stage shared a love for the district’s best-known genre.

Billy Currington threw judicious moments of vocal ferocity into his version of Kenny Rogers’ “Sweet Music Man,” Martina McBride emulated Reba McEntire well with a few well-placed trills at the close of “Is There Life Out There,” and Dolly Parton resurrected George Jones’ funereal “He Stopped Loving Her Today.”

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Rascal Flatts' Gary LeVox (l) and Marty Raybon at the 2010 Country Radio Seminar on February 24 in Nashville, Tenn. Photo by Wendy Newcomer.

A mass of performers descended on downtown Nashville last week during the Country Radio Seminar to thank programmers for playing their music — and to remind the radio folks that there’s more music on the way. One guy who benefited greatly from that opportunity was former Shenandoah vocalist Marty Raybon, who not only got a last-minute moment on a big stage but also picked up some unexpected appreciation in the room.

Marty’s got a new album, At His Best, slated for release this spring, so he showed up at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel to do interviews and greet people at the record company’s suite. But CRS also turned into a sort of old-home week as he ran into a bunch of executives that he worked with regularly when Shenandoah was on RCA in the 1990s. One of those execs, Dale Turner, told Marty that his buddies in Rascal Flatts were doing a tenth-anniversary show, and the wheels started turning.

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