Willie and crew are going to be busy with this on Friday and Farm Aid on Saturday.
“Texas Strong: Harvey Can’t Mess With Texas,” from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. CT. The concert will also live stream internationally during the broadcast hour on YouTube.com/TexasStrong.
Google will match the first $500,000 of donations through a pledge challenge. Volunteers from Google’s Austin of
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Leon Bridges and others will come together on Friday, September 22 for the largest live benefit concert in Texas.
Harvey Can’t Mess With Texas: A Benefit Concert for Hurricane Harvey Relief will take place at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
Performers include:
Willie Nelson
Paul Simon
James Taylor
Bonnie Raitt
Leon Bridges
Lyle Lovett
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Ryan Bingham
Ha*Ash
The evening will include special appearances by Matthew McConaughy, Dan Rather, Renée Zellweger, Luke Wilson, Austin Mayor Steve Adler, Houston Chief of Police Art Acevedo and many more. Charlie Sexton will serve as Music Director, with Asleep at the Wheel sitting in as the house band.
Tickets go on sale today at 3:00 p.m. CT at www.rebuildtx.org, with prices ranging from $30-$199.
Eleven Texas stations will exclusively broadcast a one hour, commercial free special, “Texas Strong: Harvey Can’t Mess With Texas,” from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. CT. The concert will also live stream internationally during the broadcast hour on YouTube.com/TexasStrong.
Google will match the first $500,000 of donations through a pledge challenge. Volunteers from Google’s Austin office and our station employees will staff the phone banks at select station locations across the state.
All viewers can support the relief efforts in post-Hurricane Harvey Texas by calling 1-833-2-HELPTX, or online at www.RebuildTX.org to make a donation.
Stations airing the broadcast concert include: WFAA, Dallas; KHOU, Houston; KVUE, Austin; KENS, San Antonio; KBMT, Beaumont; KCEN, Waco-Temple-Bryan; KAGS, College Station; KIII, Corpus Christi; KYTX, Tyler; KIDY, San Angelo; and KXVA, Abilene. These are all stations owned by our parent company, TEGNA.
“We got lucky when Hurricane Harvey avoided Austin, but though it missed us, it hit our neighbors hard. Every time I’ve asked you to help our neighbors you’ve risen to the challenge,” said Austin Mayor Steve Adler. “Now we have an opportunity to do good by being our best, and that means putting on a show and having a good time. Let’s show the world what it means to be the Live Music Capital of the World in the greatest state in the Union. I’ll be there and hope to see you, too.”
Proceeds will benefit Rebuild Texas Fund. Rebuild Texas Fund was created by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation in collaboration with the OneStar Foundation. The four focus areas of the fund include: health and housing; schools and child care; workforce and transportation; and capital for small businesses. The Dells are working to raise a total of $100 million for the long-term relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts for all affected communities in Texas. “For us, this is personal,” said Susan Dell. Both Michael and Susan Dell are Texas natives and Michael Dell is from Houston. “This fund was created to help rebuild all of the communities – big and small – that have been devastated by Hurricane Harvey. We will be rebuilding for years to come,” said Michael Dell.
Harvey Can’t Mess With Texas: A Benefit Concert for Hurricane Harvey Relief is generously organized with donated efforts and services by Springboard Productions, Solomon Group, Big House Sounds, Soundcheck Austin, The Frank Erwin Center, Hotel Van Zandt, GSD&M, Andy Langer, Texas Music Office, and the City of Austin, as well as media partners KUTX, KGSR, Texas Monthly, Austin American Statesman, and Austin Chronicle. TEGNA is producing the broadcast in partnership with Debra Davis Productions. Austin-based C3 Presents will proudly produce the live event with all services donated.
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on Friday, September 22, 2017 – 06:04 pm
Staring soon here:
Staring soon here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgYGCrHVWYc
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on Friday, September 22, 2017 – 06:05 pm
THX again Patches ! I'll
THX again Patches ! I'll watch
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on Friday, September 22, 2017 – 06:35 pm
https://www.rebuildtx.org/
https://www.rebuildtx.org/
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on Friday, September 22, 2017 – 08:02 pm
Well - just saw this:
Well - just saw this:
"A star-studded lineup of Lone Star State favorites will headline the "Harvey Can’t Mess with Texas” benefit concert tonight in Austin. Part of the four-hour concertat the Frank Erwin Center in Austin will air on KHOU 11 at 9 p.m. KHOU 11's parent company Tegna helped organize the event.
We are only getting part of it.
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on Saturday, September 23, 2017 – 12:54 am
Link starts at the beginning.
Link starts at the beginning. Looks like an hour total. Skip thru bozo's monologue and you are at the top. Willie, Bonnie, Jimmie Vaughan.
Pretty cool. Thanks for the headsup. Glad I can still watch it.
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on Saturday, September 23, 2017 – 01:07 am
Looking like more
Looking like more fastforwarding is necessary.(More talk)
Buffet did a little diddy from Paris. I used to be a huge Parrot-head. Until Cheeseburger in Paradise came out. I have never forgiven him for that. His first 5 or so albums are outstanding works of poetic story telling. I used to know all the words to every song on all the early albums. Yes Gary you heard right.
"Hash"? was decent. Never heard of them.
Now James Taylor. Cool.
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on Saturday, September 23, 2017 – 01:33 am
That was fun. Edie is looking
That was fun. Edie is looking good. Loved the duets. Prefer Lyle with his large band, but the song was nice.
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on Saturday, September 23, 2017 – 02:14 am
Nice to see Austins own
Nice to see Austins own Asleep at the Wheel with Ray Benson as the backup band. Willie Nelson suggested he relocate there back in 1973
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on Saturday, September 23, 2017 – 04:52 am
Saw them at Hardly Strictly I
Saw them at Hardly Strictly I think last yr. They blew me away.