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The first annual Jimmy Dean Music Festival is happening this Sunday, May 11, Mother’s Day.

The festival aims to honor the late entertainer and sausage king. It will take place at the Richmond Marriott at 2 p.m.

Bill Anderson, star of the Grand Ole Opry and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame will headline the concert. Donna Meade, widow of Dean and administrator of The Dean Foundation with husband Jayson Stevens, will perform with Lynne Carnes and Brad Spivey and the Honky Tonk Experience. Meade is a member of the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame and nominee for Female Vocalist of the Year by the Academy of Country Music in 1989.

Dean, a successful singer, actor and businessman who held a passion for philanthropy and education, was recently remembered by The Dean Foundation with a $100,000 donation to the Children’s Education Fund at Henricus Historical Park. Proceeds from the Jimmy Dean Music Festival will also support the Children’s Education Fund at the living-history museum.