Health care workers in general have had a brutal past 16 months due to the pandemic, and this was the first time I felt like things were getting back to normal since March of last year.” I'm so excited to get back out there, playing live shows. “I think it goes without saying that everyone there was appreciative of him giving his time for this event. “We’ve seen Darius in concert before he always puts on a great show, and this past week was no exception,” Reeves said. One of those lucky enough to land tickets to the event at The Windjammer was Crispin Reeves, an MUSC clinical instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, who took his wife with him to the show. “And I thought it just made sense to start things off with a concert like this – for the people who made it all possible, thanks to their bravery and hard work.” Darius Rucker and his band performed for more than 1,000 front-line workers, among them, MUSC's Melissa Golden (bottom right image, far left). “I’m so excited to get back out there, playing live shows,” Rucker said. With social distancing and masking restrictions relaxing more and more each day, Rucker felt it was finally time to start performing again. Of those thousand tickets, 200 were earmarked specifically for Medical University of South Carolina employees, a place where Rucker’s mother worked as a nurse for more than 30 years, and where he’s supported children’s programs for two decades, even serving as chair of the campaign to build the new MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital. From employees in the food and beverage industry to health care workers, Rucker invited more than 1,000 of the area’s critical work force to a private beachfront concert on the Isle of Palms. So it was no surprise when he announced he would be throwing a concert on June 9 – his first live performance since the world was turned upside down by COVID more than a year ago – for Lowcountry front-line workers. And though the rocker-turned-country crooner has achieved massive critical and commercial success over the years, he has never left South Carolina. Born and raised in Charleston, Rucker is synonymous with the Lowcountry. It’s hard to argue that any musician loves his hometown more than Darius Rucker.
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