TRAVIS TRITT

The Edge is using his charity to help New Orleans musicians get back on their feet from the pandemic.

Country musician Travis Tritt is set to sing the national anthem before Game 6 of the NL Championship Series, just days after canceling shows at venues that required a COVID-19 vaccine or masks.

The music industry is moving toward vaccine mandates for concertgoers, but local and state laws have created murky legal waters for COVID-19 rules in venues.

PARIS, Tenn. The 27-year-old daughter of country singer Hank Williams Jr. was killed in a highway accident in Tennessee, police said. Katherine Williams-Dunning of Springville was the driver of an SUV that was towing a boat when it crossed the median and rolled over Saturday night on U.S. Route 79 northeast of Paris, said Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman Lt. Brad Wilbanks. In a Facebook post, Williams-Dunning's brother, Sam Williams asked for prayers for his sister and brother-in-law. Country star Travis Tritt wrote on Twitter that the news was heartbreaking.My family and I knew Katie ever since she was a kid," Tritt said. I cannot even imagine what Hank, Mary Jane and the rest of the Williams family are going through right now.Wilbanks said the accident remains under investigation.

In this Aug. 8, 2012, photo provided by Meghan Boyd Carrier, her father, Cleon Boyd, left, and his twin brother Leon Boyd perform during her wedding in Readsboro, Vt. Cleon died from the coronavirus on April 3, 2020. It also claimed his twin brother Leon, who died a week later at a hospital across the border in New Hampshire. With all the pandemic stuff going on and the way my dad died first from the virus, I think it has left a mark on people. The procession made its way past an elementary school, the Boyd Family Farm and the homes of relatives. Bill Adams had played fiddle with Cleon and Leon Boyd and dedicated a version of Amazing Grace to the men after they died.