Tower FCU sponsors Live On The Farm Benefit Concert for Maryland Therapeutic Riding, Oak Ridge Boys to perform

Country greats The Oak Ridge Boys will perform, along with local favorite The Hard Travelers

[Laurel, Md.] Tower Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Maryland Therapeutic Riding’s (MTR) 12th Annual Live On The Farm Benefit Concert, to be held Friday, September 7, 2012, at MTR’s 26-acre farm in Crownsville, Md. Grammy award-winning country music legends The Oak Ridge Boys will perform, along with local favorite The Hard Travelers.

Photo courtesy of oakridgeboys.com.

Barn doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Along with live music, the event features a live and silent auction. One of the evening’s highlights is the presentation of MTR’s annual “Exceptional Hero” award. This year’s recipient is 21-year-old Katie Parry, who has participated in the therapeutic riding program since the age of five.

MTR is a nonprofit organization that uses horses to help special needs children and adults, and retired and active-duty wounded soldiers and their families. The benefit concert is the organization’s primary fundraiser, and monies raised will benefit MTR programs like “Horses for Heroes,” a specialty therapeutic riding program for veteran and active duty U.S. military wounded warriors and injured community-service personnel and their family members.

“We are honored to support events like Live on the Farm that benefit those who have served our country, often with great sacrifice” says Martin Breland, Tower’s President and CEO. “Therapeutic riding is a unique and effective program that provides support and rehabilitative services to so many, and we are happy to help MTR reach their fundraising goals.”

Tickets to the concert are available online at www.horsesthatheal.org or by calling MTR at 410-923-6800. Prices are $40 for general admission and $125 for VIP admission. Both ticket options include access to the musical performances and silent and live auctions. VIP tickets also include preferred parking, premiere seating, refreshments in the VIP tent prior to the concert, a pre-concert rider demonstration, and a reception with the artists before the show.