Award-winning musician Hannah King will be the first artist to grace Bridlepath Equine Center's new event space and headline the nonprofit's Fall Benefit Concert.

The show will be held Friday, Oct. 24, at 787 Valley Road, Quarryville. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Space is limited. Register by Wednesday, Oct. 1, by going to http://www.bridlepathequinecenter.org or calling 717-945-2799.

King is a singer and songwriter, and has won local, state, and national awards for her work as a fiddle player.

"We have heard Hannah perform at different venues and have been very, very impressed," said Bridlepath's fundraising chair Kris Kauffman, who is King's mother-in-law. "We love the style of music. She brings a little bit of country, folksy. Her fiddle playing is amazing."

Bridlepath executive director Danielle Swope said, "Bridlepath's board of directors is honored to host this benefit concert with musician Hannah King. The board will be serving the catered meal to our guests as a way to say thank you and to bring awareness to the services we provide for an incredible population and the nonprofit world as we work to raise funds for these services."

Swope noted that it will be a distinctive event. "I think we're also trying to find different fundraising avenues that are more unique and different to the area that instead of the same old (events)," she said. "This happened to just be an event that we can host."

King's concert will be the first show in Bridlepath's new building. "As we're growing our program, Lee Kauffman has been heading up a lot of the projects around the farm to expand our services," said Swope. "One of those improvements was our bank barn to create a Bridlepath event space for different fundraisers and for a variety of events that we can host here. We're honored to have Hannah King be the first event that we're officially opening to the public to utilize that event space."

Swope said Bridlepath Equine Center offers therapeutic horsemanship services to individuals with special needs with a variety of physical, emotional, behavioral and intellectual diagnoses. "We serve children and adults," she said. We have weekly participant sessions that run year-round, and then we also offer a specialized group programming for at-risk population. We are working in partnership with Penn State's Four Diamonds program to offer a young adult pediatric cancer support group for cancer patients and survivors. And we also just launched Unbridled Courage, which is a group for families that have special needs, kiddos who are an adoptive or foster care families. We're hoping to expand those types of services to perhaps adult group homes and other at-risk populations down the road."

The benefit concert is one way the group can continue to serve the community. "Danielle and I are very passionate about Bridlepath and what we can provide to this amazing population," Kris said. "It costs more than what we charge, and we try to keep our services at a price that is affordable for our participants, so we need to make up that difference. That's why we need to do fundraisers to make up that difference."

Swope added, "I think the biggest thing is just to bring awareness to Bridlepath and try to be creative with ways that we can bring community members in and to show the space that we have."