{"id":25227,"date":"2023-09-10T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=25227"},"modified":"2023-09-07T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:27:10","slug":"darius-rucker-don-mclean-and-more-to-be-inducted-to-walk-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/09\/darius-rucker-don-mclean-and-more-to-be-inducted-to-walk-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker, Don McLean And More To Be Inducted To Walk Of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darius Rucker will be inducted to The Music City Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville Convention &amp; Visitors Corp announced on Wednesday, September 6th that the three-time Grammy Award-winner, Don McLean, Duane Eddy and Joe Galante will all receive their stars in an induction ceremony on Wednesday, October 4th at Music City Walk of Fame Park.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Levitan, Chairman of the NCVC Board of Directors and Founder and Co-President of Vector Management said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis exceptional inductee class for the Music City Walk of Fame embodies iconic moments in the history of music \u2013 from Darius Rucker\u2019s rendition of \u201cWagon Wheel\u201d to Don McLean\u2019s classic \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d to the distinctive twang of Duane Eddy\u2019s guitar. Nashville\u2019s music industry would not be the dominant force it is today without Joe Galante, who solidified Country as a leading genre in the record industry and who continues to nurture the next generation of music leaders through tech startups and entrepreneur programs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Professional wrestler Ric Flair will be in attendance to induct Rucker.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cw3DclROVLF\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker will be inducted to The Music City Walk of Fame.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":19978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3722,6670,8027,6638,6502,2334],"class_list":["post-25227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-darius-rucker","tag-don-mclean","tag-duane-eddy","tag-joe-galante","tag-music-city-walk-of-fame","tag-nashville"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 13:53:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/09\/darius-rucker-don-mclean-and-more-to-be-inducted-to-walk-of-fame\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}