Michael J. Fox sports $275 Gibson jean jacket and cowboy boots for his foundation’s country-themed Parkinson’s benefit in Nashville

Michael J. Fox put on his best cowboy boots to attend his foundation’s A Country Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson’s benefit at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday.

The Back to the Future alum, 62, also rocked a $275 Imogene + Willie x Gibson ‘denim trucker jacket’ with black jeans while posing alongside his 35-year-old wife, Tracy Pollan, who wore a midi dress from chambray with puffed sleeves. black dress and shoes.

Michael was in high spirits after his surprise appearance presenting best film at the BAFTAs in London on February 18, which earned him a standing ovation.

Fox frequently credits the love and support of the 63-year-old Emmy-nominated actress for keeping him focused on his health and sobriety 33 years after he was diagnosed with the degenerative central nervous system disorder.

The Still star writer and Tracy are proud parents of four adult children: son Sam, 34; daughter Esmé, 22 years old; and their twin daughters Aquinnah and Schuyler, 29.

In 2000, Michael officially launched the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which has raised $2.5 billion for Parkinson’s research, therapeutic programs, clinical trials, and a library of data sets and biological samples.

“I think in the next 10 or 15 years we will have a viable solution one way or another, whether it’s curing it or preventing it pathologically,” said Fox, who doesn’t expect to live to be 80. The Guardian in February.

‘The next question is: “Will I be there for that?” I doubt it. But it’s okay. I don’t think in personal terms, you just want to face the moment. And I think the time is near. For big, big answers.’

The Eighties icon added: ‘The last thing you have left is a future. No matter where you are or what you do, you will always have a future. Until you don’t. Then he moved and it really mattered. But I’m in it for the final scene. I’m not leaving early to get to the car before the crowd starts.

Michael and Pollan made sure to pose on the red carpet with the night’s Grammy-winning artists: Jason Isbell, Sheryl Crow, and members of the band Little Big Town.

April marks Parkinson’s Awareness Month, and in addition to the country-themed musical acts, the charity event also featured a dinner catered by Locust chef Trevor Moran.

Sheryl, who just released her twelfth studio album, Evolution, easily defied her 62 years in a bicep-baring blue top, black leather pants and ankle boots.

Jason, who had an acting role in Killers of the Flower Moon, looked like a cowboy in a gallon-sized hat, a striped double-breasted jacket, blue jeans and snakeskin boots.

Little Big Town’s Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman and Phillip Sweet also looked glam for the gala.