Last night Vince Gill took the stage and entertained over 5,000 people from the Sandhills with his phenomenal guitar picking, sweet singing “high voice,” and his spot-on humor as part of a fundraising concert for The First Tee Sandhills (thank you Vince!). His concert will be remembered by locals for years to come and has now set the bar for future concerts at the Pinehurst Village Arboretum.
Thousands came early with picnic baskets, coolers, blankets & their favorite chairs. At eight o’clock, Gill and his talented band played for two hours which featured a mix of his greatest hits plus a few new ones including the unforgetable track “Red Words.” And a surprise highlight of the evening was when Gill welcomed his newly-married daughter Jenny to the stage to sing a few songs with her dad.
To us, the most memorable thing of all was when the sun went down leaving us under a starry sky (with a few lightning bugs) and we looked to our right and to our left and saw that we were surrounded by our friends, listening to our favorite songs and that we were HOME.
We are so very proud of the event staff, volunteers and the Village of Pinehurst for pulling off this incredible feat in first-class fashion. Our only question now is….when can we do this again?
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