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Rising country star Stephen Wilson Jr., who just received his first Academy of Country Music award, will head to Kansas City at the end of the month as a celebrity guest of the annual Big Slick fundraiser for Children\u2019s Mercy.<\/p>\n
Last week ACM officials presented Wilson the Visual Media of the Year Award for the track \u201cCuckoo\u201d on his album, \u201cSon of Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson is among the first guests announced Monday for this year\u2019s Big Slick Party and Show on Saturday, May 30, at T-Mobile Center. Expect the guest list to be rolled out over the coming days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thrilled to kick off the 2026 Big Slick Celebrity Weekend guest announcements with one of country music\u2019s \u2018most electrifying new artists\u2019 according to Rolling Stone,\u201d Big Slick organizers said on Instagram.<\/p>\n
Wilson brought his current \u201cGary the Torch\u201d tour to Kansas City\u2019s Midland Theatre last month.<\/p>\n
Stand-up comedian Tom Papa will also join Big Slick for the first time. The actor and host of the \u201cBreaking Bread\u201d podcast is known for his Netflix comedy specials and appearances with another funny guy, Jerry Seinfeld. Papa is currently touring with his comedy act.<\/p>\n
Trivia time: Papa is an accomplished baker and cookbook author who often incorporates his bread-making skills into his comedy and live shows.<\/p>\n
Two Big Slick veterans round out the first guest announcements: Adam Scott and Today show weather anchor Al Roker.<\/p>\n
Another trivia note: Roker is a cousin to Lenny Kravitz, Big Slick officials shared.<\/p>\n
Big Slick is hosted every year by Kansas City\u2019s talented group of homegrown celebrities \u2014 Jason Sudeikis, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Heidi Gardner, Rob Riggle and Eric Stonestreet.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Big Slick weekend<\/a> looks a little different.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s not just because of a new circus theme that teasingly suggests that someone, at some point, might ride a unicycle or walk a tightrope \u2014 both of which we\u2019re sure people would pay money to see.<\/p>\n Another change was caused by FIFA World Cup soccer events. The event\u2019s popular celebrity softball game has been scratched and replaced by a private VIP party on Friday, May 29, but is expected to return next year.<\/p>\n The softball game usually takes place at Kauffman Stadium before a Royals game. But organizers earlier announced that \u201cdue to scheduling limitations around Kansas City\u2019s exciting FIFA World Cup bid, Big Slick is rolling into town when the Kansas City Royals are out of town.\u201d<\/p>\n Tickets for the replacement limited-capacity \u201cexperience\u201d at Kauffman Stadium start at $3,500. Tickets for the main event at T-Mobile start at $100.<\/p>\n The VIP evening \u201coffers face-to-face time with Big Slick\u2019s celebrity hosts and their friends alongside curated entertainment, conversation and music throughout the night,\u201d organizers have said.<\/p>\n Tickets to both are available at bigslickkc.org<\/a>. Tickets to the T-Mobile show are also at T-MobileCenter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n All proceeds from the Big Slick events benefit pediatric cancer research at Children\u2019s Mercy. Big Slick has raised more than $30 million for the hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rising country star Stephen Wilson Jr., who just received his first Academy of Country Music award, will head to Kansas City at the end of the month as a celebrity guest of the annual Big Slick fundraiser for Children\u2019s Mercy. Last week ACM officials presented Wilson the Visual Media of the Year Award for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2413140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[472209,472210,361947,310650,27155,416321],"class_list":["post-2413139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-big-slick","tag-big-slick-party","tag-celebrity-guest","tag-kansas-city","tag-royals","tag-stephen-wilson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rising-country-star-Stephen-Wilson-Jr-joins-Big-Slick-guest.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413141,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413139\/revisions\/2413141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}