| PERSONAL APPEARANCES
The Oak Ridge Boys work some 150 personal appearances each year, ranging from the main room in Las Vegas strip hotels and giant state fairs to select theatres in the round and the larger auditoriums and arenas nationwide. The Oak Ridge Boys tours are comprised of some 25 men and women, nine performers along with a road manager, security, light, and sound technicians, stage manager and other crew. Three customized Silver Eagle buses. Additionally, the tour has one 18-wheeler (3 at Christmas) to move over 20 tons of equipment. Pillsbury/Totino's Pizza; Ralston-Purina; AT&T; Dr. Pepper; Boy Scouts of America; Take Pride In America (U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture); Tennessee Adopt-A-Highway Program; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?s Buckle-Up Campaign, 1991 - 1993; Tennessee Tourism national campaign, 1992 - 1993. England, Soviet Union, France, Belgium, Monaco, West Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Canada. King Gustaf of Sweden, Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline of Monaco, Her Royal Highness Princess, Anne of Great Britain, President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter, President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan, President and Mrs. George Bush. PBS Special, HBO Special, American Bandstand's 30th Anniversary, ABC's 20/20, Good Morning America, Today, Tonight Show, Regis & Kathie Lee, Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, TNN/Music City News Awards, Viewers Choice Awards, Entertainment Tonight, New Year's Rockin' Eve, TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, Wolftrap Salutes ASCAP (PBS Great American Performances),The Bush Presidential Inaugural Gala, Crook & Chase (hosts), Nashville Now (hosts). The group served as Honorary Chairmen of the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse (NCPCA), 1985 - 1988, and currently serve on the Board of Directors. In 1985, the Oaks represented all of American music at the grand opening of the Acropolis in Nice, France, where they donated their performance fee to the international relief organization Feed The Children. The money was used to drill four water wells in the Rift Valley of Kenya. The Oaks' annual Christmas tour is also affiliated with Feed The Children. By 1992, the third year for this tour, a record donation of almost three million pounds of food had been collected for the needy. |
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