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TeleFund 2024 features performances from Exile, Celtic Woman, Carole King & James Taylor and more!

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TeleFund 2024 features performances from Exile, Celtic Woman, Carole King & James Taylor and more!

For Release: 02/20/24 12:24 PM

KET’s TeleFund 2024 event is March 2-10 and features a live concert from and documentary about Exile, the Kentucky band whose 1978 pop hit “Kiss You All Over” topped the charts, as well as concerts and performances from other artists, such as Celtic Woman, Carole King & James Taylor, as well as many others.

Throughout TeleFund, viewers can support KET by calling in their pledge to (800) 866-0366 or visiting KET.org/Donate.

TeleFund highlights include:

Exile: 60 Years of Music
Explore the history of one of America’s longest-running bands. From their rock ’n’ roll roots in Richmond, Kentucky, to their 1978 pop hit “Kiss You All Over” that topped the Billboard charts, to their reinvention as a hit-making country band, this documentary chronicles Exile’s story, more than six decades in the making. This program is funded in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions.
KET Saturday, March 2 • 6:30/5:30 pm
KET2 Sunday, March 3 • Noon/11 am

Exile: Live in Concert
This live concert film, recorded in Nov. 2023 at the historic Renfro Valley Entertainment Center in Mt. Vernon, features many of the band’s biggest hits. This program is funded in part by the KET Endowment for Kentucky Productions.
KET Tuesday, March 5 • 8/7 pm
KET2 Thursday, March 7 • 7:30/6:30 pm

Celtic Woman 20th Anniversary Concert
Celebrate 20 years of spectacular Irish music with this new concert filmed at the Helix in Dublin that features eight founding and current Celtic Women performers playing fan favorites, new arrangements and stirring originals.
KET Saturday, March 2 • 8/7 pm
KET2 Monday, March 4 • 9:30/8:30 pm

Bee Gees: In Our Own Time
In their career spanning five decades, the Bee Gees had number-one hits from the 1960s to the 1990s and sold more than 200 million albums, making them one of the best-selling music acts of all time.
KET Saturday, March 2 • 10/9 pm

Gospel
Presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr., this series takes viewers across the United States to meet the pioneers of gospel music who first fused blues and jazz with testimonies of God’s goodness.
KET Saturday, March 2 • 1:30/12:30 pm (Parts 1 & 2)
KET Sunday, March 3 • 1:30/12:30 pm (Parts 3 & 4)

All New Rock, Pop and Doo Wop
This new retrospective includes performances by Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Duprees, Jay Back, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Frankie Valli, Jerry Butler and many more artists from the 1950s and ’60s. 
KET Sunday, March 3 • 7/6 pm
KET2 Tuesday, March 5 • 8/7 pm

Carole King & James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name
This documentary features live performances between the multi-Grammy Award-winning artists and explores their early partnerships of writing and performing together as well as their hugely successful solo careers. 
KET Monday, March 4 • 8/7 pm
KET2 Saturday, March 2 • 1:30/12:30 pm

Doc Martin: The Final Episode
After ten seasons, the hit comedy Doc Martin airs its final episode. Find out how it ends for Dr. Martin Ellingham, the grumpy London surgeon whose blood phobia caused him to flee to the sleepy fishing village of Portwenn. 
KET Thursday, March 7 • 8/7 pm
KET2 Friday, March 8 • 12:30 am/11:30 pm

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Contact:

Elizabeth Greenfield
Director of Marketing and Communications
859-258-7749
egreenfield@ket.org