NASHVILLE — The funeral service and visitation for country music legend Charlie Daniels will be held this week starting Wednesday in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee an eastern suburb of Nashville.

Events celebrating Daniels’ life will take place over the next three days and will lead up to the Friday funeral service held in Murfreesboro.

On Wednesday evening, a patriotic-themed memorial featuring Trace Adkins, Tracey Lawrence and Darryl Worley will be held outside Sellars Funeral Home in Mt. Juliet starting at 6:30 p.m. The event will include a military flyover and 21-gun salute according to The Tennessean.

Sellars Funeral Home will also host an open visitation from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday.

The funeral service for Daniels will be held on Friday at 11 a.m. at World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro.

Vince Gill, Travis Tritt, Gretchen Wilson and Trace Adkins plan to perform at the service according to The Tennessean.

Daniels died Monday morning after a hemorrhagic stroke, the Tennessean reported. He died at a hospital in Hermitage, Tennessee, according to The Associated Press.

Born October 28, 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina, Daniels began his career as a session musician. He worked for artists including Leonard Cohen, Ringo Starr and, most famously, Bob Dylan during his “Nashville Skyline” sessions.

He formed the Charlie Daniels Band in 1972 and saw early success with the release of “Uneasy Rider,” PBS reported. Two years later the band released “Fire on the Mountain,” which was certified gold within months of its release.

In 2008, when Daniels was 71, he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. One year later he was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. In 2016, he was hailed as a “pioneer in introducing southern rock sounds into mainstream country music” and inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Daniels is survived by his wife, Hazel, and his son, Charlie Daniels Jr., the Tennessean reported.

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