Iron Horse Café is presenting a very special Acoustic Evening with Grammy winner Rodney Crowell on Friday, May 6th.  The concert and dinner are being held as a benefit for Heroes and Horses, a program that uses the remote wilderness and the horse/human connection to challenge and inspire personal growth in veterans suffering from mental and physical scars.

Rodney Crowell is a Texas-born, Nashville-based songwriter, artist, producer and author whose work and career sets a benchmark for commercial success and lifelong artistic ambition and integrity in country and Americana music. His compositions, including “Til I Gain Control Again,” “I Ain’t Livin’ Long Like This” “Song For The Life” and “Ashes By Now” have been widely and successfully covered by legendary singers. He led the way as a recording artist, achieving a dazzling run of radio hits in the 1980s, followed by a series of more personal albums in the 2000s that secured his place as much more than a chart-topper. His 2011 memoir Chinaberry Sidewalks vividly fleshed out the life story of this sincere and complex artist. Crowell is a 2 time Grammy Award winner, 2 time Americana Music Award winner, a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the recipient of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting from the Americana Music Association.

“ We’re huge fans of Rodney Crowell, “ said Kelli Merkel, who owns the Iron Horse with her husband Ryan Merkel. “We asked if he might come do the show and were delighted when he said yes. This will be a great opportunity to hear Rodney is a small intimate setting where you can truly appreciate his amazing songs. ”

The concert will be held at the Headwaters Livestock Auction just off I-90, west of Three Forks.  Doors open at 5:30 for dinner and drinks.  The Concert starts at 7:00.  The Iron Horse Cafe will be serving gourmet food, beer and wine. Tax deductible tickets are available at ticketriver.com or at the Iron Horse Café in Three Forks. General admission is $30 and there are a limited number of VIP seats available for $75- each ticket includes dinner, two drink tickets and a meet and greet after the show.

The Heroes and Horses program re-galvanizes our nation’s veterans, challenging them to rediscover who they are and what they can be moving forward. Heroes and Horses’ focus is not about what happened, but what can happen when one chooses to press on. By “challenging what challenges them,” Heroes and Horses provides veterans the chance to make peace with their past and replace devastating memories with positive ones. For more information on the charity, please visit Heroesandhorses.com. For more information, call 406/600-6193.