Cracker Barrel Old Country Store partners with DAV

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store® has partnered with DAV through their Country Checkers Challenge event at the 2015 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Party for a Cause Festival.

On Saturday, April 18, team captains and country music stars Kellie Pickler and Thomas Rhett, and their teams of country music artists and other representatives, will play on a giant, human sized checkerboard onsite at the 3rd Annual ACM Party for a Cause Festival at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas.

Past National Commander Bobby Barrera and DAV Life Member Joseph Washam will represent DAV at the event.

Through a $35,000 donation from Cracker Barrel, ACM Lifting Lives® will donate $25,000 to the winning team’s charity and $10,000 to the losing team’s charity.

Rhett’s team selected DAV as his benefiting charity and Pickler selected United Service Organizations.

“We’re very excited to have a strong partner in Cracker Barrel Old Country Store,” said National Adjutant Marc Burgess. “Their commitment to the men and women who served has always been unwavering and we’re very much looking forward to this event.”

Other country music entertainers scheduled to participate in the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Country Checkers Challenge as human checker pieces include: Rhett Akins, Dan + Shay, Danielle Bradbery, Scotty McCreery and Cassadee Pope playing on Thomas Rhett’s team. Lauren Alaina, Chase Bryant, Kristian Bush, Love & Theft and Jamie Lynn Spears will play on Kellie Pickler’s team. Stay tuned for further updates and coverage of this unique event through DAV’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DAV.