Ag Week brings Western star
Ag Week will finish out with a live performance by an award-winning musician who sings about agricul-ture.
Country and Western musician Brenn Hill was recently awarded Western Male Vocalist of the year by the Academy of Western Artists (AWA).
Hill, a 28-year-old Utah native, will play in the Kent Concert Hall Friday night for a scholarship concert.
All proceeds from the concert will go for scholarships in the College of Agriculture
Lyle McNeal, animal and veter-
inary science professor at Utah State University, said he met Hill at an Elko Poetry Gathering and they have been friends ever since.
McNeal said he liked Hill and his music because he sang about ranching, cowboy life, farming and the environment.
“[Hill’s music] connects one with the earth and our culture,” McNeal said. “His music is tied to the moun-tains. He hasn’t sold his soul to Nashville”
Hill has incorporated the Legacy Highway and former USU students into his songs, McNeal said. “He wants to get involved with college age students.”
Hill’s songs are not about getting drunk and losing a girlfriend as many stereotype country songs are, he said.
“It’s positive music,” McNeal said.
Hill is now promoting his 2004 release and fifth album, “Endangered.”
Associated Students of USU Agriculture Senator, Chad Warnick, has been organizing Ag Week. He said he hopes as many students as possible can come.
-joelfeathers@cc.usu.edu