KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — It’s been planned for months that Morgan Wallen will be performing two concerts at Neyland Stadium this weekend, but the country music star decided to surprise his former high school with a grant through his foundation as well.
The Morgan Wallen Foundation held a press conference on Thursday to announce a $140,000 donation to Gibbs Youth Sports.
Leslie Wallen, the country star’s mother and director of the foundation, as well as executive director Kathleen Flaherty attended the event Thursday and shared a video with a special message from Wallen.
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“This is a special weekend for me to be able to to come back on the play Neyland and I just want to say thank you to everybody in in Knoxville for their support over the years and to celebrate that I wanted to give a donation of my foundation to the Gibbs Youth Sports. And we’re going to do a renovation of the Gibbs Ruritan Park. We’re going to be doing a lot of work there, but basically, the overall gist of it is they’re going to make the the park usable all year round for the kids there.” Wallen said in the video…