For one night, country singers from all over gather together at the Country Music Hall of Fame benefit. Stars like James Taylor, Vince Gill and Joe Walsh make their appearances on stage and reflect on songs that stood out from the past several years.

And they are doing it for one cause. For the benefit of Education. The key mission at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for this year, is Education.

This year's fund raiser made the 11th edition of the organization. The annual benefit includes Emcee and 20-time Grammy Award winner Vince Gill to lead the All for the Hall benefit, according to the LA Times. Aside from Gill, special guests James Taylor, Joe Walsh, Chris Stapleton and Kacey Musgraves went on stage to share a master class. The master class includes a "transformative combination of words set to music."

For stars like Walsh, Gill and Taylor, music is essential. And they emphasize the vital avenue of self-expression that music can offer. Gill, who is also the president of the hall's board of trustees, at one point reminisced about the time they were still kids. How music was everything to them when they were young.

"If they (kids) can find an instrument that they can express themselves with, that's all they do," says Eagles lead guitarist Walsh.

During the event, artists shared their experiences about how music shaped their lives when they were kids, about what inspired them to write songs and how they struggled to find success.

Walsh says that if you give a kid an instrument, you can "fix" it. He refers to the age of digital games. "here's no music in the schools, so they text. They Facebook."

Give a kid an instrument to express themselves with, educate themselves with and you'd have a kid that can make a great hit.

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