NEW YORK,NY(SMI-ENTERTAINMENT,05.31.19)-The Lincoln Center Corporate Fund of Media and Entertainment, hosted a special benefit event this evening entitled, "A Night of Country of City Lights ", honoring  renowned American country singer & actress and three times Grammy-Award winning musician, Jennifer Nettles, with the Fund’s Artist Impact Award at the Adrienne Arsht Stage | Starr Theater Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.

 

This year Fund's benefit proceeds was raised to support Lincoln Center’s constituent arts organizations. The unrestricted nature of these funds permits the organizations to use them across a broad range of activities to help achieve their missions, including engaging in educational programming, presenting new productions, and mounting performances throughout New York City’s five boroughs and schools.

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The Lincoln Center Corporate Fund Media and Entertainment Council honored the US three-time Grammy Award–winning musician and actress, Jennifer Nettles, with the Fund’s Artist Impact Award for her entertainment career and commitment to philanthropy, focused on work with the 4-H organization and the Human Rights Campaign. Attendees enjoyed an intimate concert and a post-performance celebration in the lobbies of Alice Tully Hall.

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Notable attendees Included:Ms. Jennifer Nettles, Robert Brown, Megan Hilty, Jessie Mueller, Michael McElroy and Broadway Inspirational Voices, and Singer-Songwriter Cam. Lincoln Center President and CEO Henry Timms; Lincoln Center Corporate Fund Media and Entertainment Council members, event co-chairs, and speakers Paul Buccieri, President, A+E Networks Group, and Bill Koenigsberg, President, Chief Executive Officer, & Founder of Horizon Media & others.......