{"id":24216,"date":"2023-04-21T05:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T09:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=24216"},"modified":"2023-04-21T05:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T09:29:44","slug":"darius-rucker-ready-for-14th-annual-fundraising-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/04\/darius-rucker-ready-for-14th-annual-fundraising-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker Ready For 14th Annual Fundraising Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darius Rucker will return to Nashville&#8217;s Ryman Auditorium on Monday, June 5 for his 14th Annual Darius and Friends concert benefiting St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which unofficially kicks off the week of CMA Fest in downtown Nashville and has raised more than $3 million to date, will feature an all-star roster of friends to be announced in the coming months.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s really crazy to see how Darius &amp; Friends how far it&#8217;s come because it was funny, we decided to do it on a Monday because we had nothing going on Monday the week of CMA Fest and so we decided to do it then and now it&#8217;s kind of like the unofficial kickoff it keeps getting bigger and bigger every year, that&#8217;s pretty awesome and that&#8217;s exactly what we wanted to do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tickets to the 14th Annual Darius &amp; Friends benefit concert start at $69 and go on sale to the general public today.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CrJEI34OaVT\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker will return to Nashville&#8217;s Ryman Auditorium on Monday, June 5 for his 14th Annual Darius and Friends concert benefiting St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4668,85,62,1182,779],"class_list":["post-24216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-darius-and-friends","tag-darius-rucker","tag-nashville","tag-ryman-auditorium","tag-st-jude-childrens-research-hospital"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 19:33:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/04\/darius-rucker-ready-for-14th-annual-fundraising-concert\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}