At the 50th Anniversary Gala for the Heritage Foundation, Dierks Bentley takes the stage.

At The Heritage Foundation’s’s 50th anniversary dinner on Friday night, country star Dierks Bentley astounded attendees with a swinging performance at the Gaylord Hotel in National Grand Harbor, Maryland.

Attendees were astounded when Bentley, a 14-time Grammy candidate, took the stage for five songs. The two-day ceremony featured some of the biggest names in the traditional organization, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and banquet keynote speaker Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Prior to the night, guests were kept in the dark about Bentley’s’s look.

“What a fabulous night celebrating free thinking and Liberty at @Heritage  50th anniversary celebration,” Congressman Matt Rosendale (R-MT) tweeted. “Entertainment by Dierks Bentley and Tucker Carlson. Even saw my good friend Scot Miller from Billings. What a night!”

What a wonderful evening at Heritage’s’s 50th anniversary party honoring liberty and independent thought.

Dierks Bentley and Tucker Carlson provide activity. sometimes caught a glimpse of my dear friend Scot Miller from Billings. What a night it was! # Heritage50pic. twitter.com / 0Zlp69Xm97

— Matt Rosendale, April 22, 2023(@ MattForMontana )

In presence to observe the organization’s’s founding in 1973 were activists, members of the internet, and elected officials.

“Surprise of the (last half) century, from @Heritage — what a treat,” writer Carolyn Bolton said of Bentley’s singing.

What a treat # Heritage50 @ DierksBentleypic.twitter.com / 1R4ydlSx2E, the( last half ) century’s’s surprise.

— April 22, 2023, Carolyn Bolton (@ carbolton )

“I didn’t know I could love @DierksBentley more,” said Heritage communications staffer Gloria Taylor.

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I had no idea that I could adore @ DierksBentley more. t.co / WroxQmXPFz

Gloria Taylor (@ glo_ tay ) on April 22, 2023

The dinner served as the culmination of the two-day conference known as Heritage’s’s Leadership Summit. The company stated that the event’s’s goal was to” demonstrate discussion around big-picture problems facing America and deliver a conservative agenda plan equipped to unite the motion around an offensive strategy to take back our land, restore self-government, and rebuild key institutions of civil world.”

Kevin Roberts, chairman of the Heritage Foundation, praised the movement’s’s members and other individuals who have contributed to its success before the event.

Roberts stated that” this company has dedicated itself to advancing traditional plan with world-class work, studies, and advocacy” since Heritage’s’s founding 50 years ago. ” Today, we honor those who had the ideas for Heritage and the deeds they carried out on behalf of the American men.” Along with all of us, we also honor the liberal movement’s’s men and women for their tireless efforts to save our nation.

Bentley, for his part, has kept his political views to himself but has expressed annoyance with Washington, D.C., and the democratization of country music.

Bentley told Rolling Stone,” What’s’s happening in country music is definitely a microcosm of the country at large.” ” There’s’s a lot of tenseness, anger, and mistrust. There is a bit of fear being used by both sides to establish their platform.

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