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4 unusual facts about benefit concert


Billy Whitlock

On 23 October, he performed at a benefit along with Emmett, Gardner, and other prominent blackface entertainers.

Chō Kuse ni Narisō

Nagisa becomes involved with them and is persuaded to stage a Benefit concert to return them to their native habitat in Florida, much to the chagrin of the gators, who find themselves outmatched in the wild and return to Tokyo.

Sarah Thorne

Her last theatrical appearance was in Margate during her benefit in September 1898.

William Wheatley

On March 24, 1843, Wheatley took a farewell benefit at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, and temporarily retired from the Stage.


Alan Carr

In 2010, Carr took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London on 30 March.

Black Gives Way to Blue

In 2005, Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez, and drummer Sean Kinney reunited to perform a benefit concert in Seattle for victims of the tsunami disaster that struck South Asia.

James Carter and the Prisoners

Carter flew to Los Angeles to attend the Grammy Award ceremony and to Tennessee for the benefit concert held in Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, which featured repeat performances by the performers of other numbers on the soundtrack (although Carter himself did not perform).

Kevin Bridges

In 2010, he took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, filmed live at the O2 Arena in London.

OMG HGB DVD ROTFL

Following the House of Blues performance is a 30-minute unplugged benefit concert for the Deborah Heart and Lung Center, recorded at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California on January 7, 2005.


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Aron Magner

In March 2010, Magner and The Disco Biscuits performed a benefit concert at Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Bowl which generated the revenue needed to fund and install a $30,000 solar energy system at Greenfield Elementary, a public school located in Center City Philadelphia.

Bob Havens

In 2005, he performed with the North Carolina Pops Orchestra at Campbell University with fellow Welk star Ava Barber in a benefit concert raising money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Cecilia Young

She made only one more known public performance, appearing at a benefit concert for Polly and her husband, composer François-Hippolyte Barthélémon, in 1774.

Christian Martucci

In November 2011 Christian performed at the Henry Rollins hosted Drop In The Bucket benefit concert alongside Corey Taylor, Roy Mayorga, Scott Ian, Dave Lombardo, John 5, and many others.

College of St. John-Roxas

Mrs. Judy Roxas visited LSAC to turn-over the proceeds of a benefit concert of Ogie Alcasid, Randy Santiago and Zsa Zsa Padilla that was used in the construction of the Covered court roof.

Cross Lines Tower

On March 3, 1963, Patsy Cline and her entourage stayed at the hotel during a benefit concert at Memorial Hall (Kansas City, Kansas) for former KCKN/KCMK disc jockey Cactus Jack Call who had died a January car accident.

Cuban Overture

It was renamed Cuban Overture three months later at a benefit concert conducted by Gershwin at the Metropolitan Opera to avoid giving audience the idea that it was simply a novelty item.

Cyril and Libbye Hellier

In the final season of The New Opera Theatre, they appeared in a Benefit Concert also featuring Natalia Rom.

Eugene Mall

When Springfield Creamery owner Chuck Kesey, brother of author Ken Kesey, brought the Grateful Dead to the Oregon Renaissance Faire to play a benefit concert for the creamery in 1972, the Eugene Mall seemed like a good waiting room for the next concert.

Jimmy Haslip

In 2001, Haslip performed at a benefit concert for Union Station Foundation, a Pasadena, California-based organization for the homeless, alongside actors Hector Elizondo and Jeff Goldblum.

John Hedley

More recently he worked with Roger Daltrey (The Who), Ruby Turner and Jimmy Nail for the Teenage Cancer Trust benefit concert in 2008 and with Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) for the Sunday for Sammy concert at Newcastle City Hall in 2010.

John Means

In 1989, he joined 45 other performers, including Los Lobos, Santana, Aaron Neville, and Crosby, Stills & Nash at a benefit concert in Watsonville, California for victims of the Loma Prieta earthquake.

LENNONYC

Interviewed in film are Yoko Ono, members of the Elephant's Memory band that played with Lennon and Ono in New York, Elton John, Dick Cavett, photographer Bob Gruen and Geraldo Rivera, who talks about a news report of his that inspired Lennon and Ono to stage the One to One benefit concert in 1972.

Levon Ichkhanian

Immediately following the tragic Armenian earthquake of 1988, Levon played an integral role in the development of a benefit concert in Toronto to raise funds for an Armenian medical clinic.

New Philharmonia Orchestra of Massachusetts

The 2007-2008 season concluded with a benefit concert at the Kennedy Library attended by the mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, honoring the orchestra's partnership with John Hancock financial services.

New York Steel

New York Steel was a benefit concert emceed by Eddie Trunk and Mike Piazza, featuring heavy metal musicians, that took place on November 28, 2001 at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Peter Appleyard

Appleyard and Sinatra performed together several years later during a benefit concert in Ottawa that was arranged by Rich Little.

Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus

Three years later, PGMC performed for the first time at the historic Academy of Music along with "HeartStrings," a national AIDS benefit concert tour that featured Sandy Duncan and Jason Bateman.

Pierre-Eugène Grenier

A benefit concert in aid of his mother was organised by his fellow actors on 28 September 1875 – this marked the final stage appearance of the actress Virginie Déjazet.

Randy Rainbow

Rainbow made a guest appearance in Tituss and the Tightass Band, a 2010 benefit concert for The Trevor Project at New World Stages.

Shane Feldman

Canadian Award Winning Singer/Songwriter Jesse Labelle teamed up with musical artists including Juno Award nominated singer Vita Chambers, and chart-topping performer Tyler Shaw to produce a "VIP Benefit Concert" honoring Shane Feldman's 19th Birthday.

The New Opera Theatre

The New Opera Theatre's final presentation was of a Benefit Concert, in the fall of 1989, featuring Natalia Rom.

The Spicy Effect

The remake was brought into fruition after Nino held a benefit concert in Agrinio in the summer to raise funds for the rehabilitation of 23-year old paraplegic Petros Zaferis.

Three Hundred Words

According to Harper's spoken introduction on his 1992 Live album, Born in Captivity II, (re-released in 1993 as Unhinged) "Three Hundred Words" was written for a benefit concert for Lancashire batsman, Graeme Fowler.

Todd Snider

On December 20, 2013, Snider debuted a new band called Hard Working Americans at a benefit concert at the Boulder Thester in Boulder, CO for Colorado Flood Relief.The band's first album is a collection of lesser known cover songs, to be released January, 2014.

Too Much Love Will Kill You

In 2003, May and Luciano Pavarotti performed a rendition of "Too Much Love Will Kill You", at the tenor's benefit concert held in Modena, Italy.

Vernon Taylor

In 1989, he was asked to play at a benefit concert for Charlie Feathers, which led to a comeback career.

Wain McFarlane

On March 10, 2007, Soul Asylum, Cyndi Lauper, Mint Condition, and Lifehouse hosted a benefit concert to raise money for his kidney transplant.

WKCR-FM

Page also produced a benefit concert for the station at Carnegie Hall, with appearances by Reich, Glass, John Cale, and David Bowie, among many others.

Yuval Ron Ensemble

Some notable performances include: the International Sacred Music Festival of Fez (Morocco), International Oud Festival and peace tour (Israel), World Festival of Sacred Music (Los Angeles), headlining the Dalai Lama’s “Seeds of Compassion” benefit concert (Seattle), the International Peace Festival (South Korea), as well as concerts in Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and Poland.