{"id":32695,"date":"2025-08-19T08:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=32695"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:23:48","slug":"texas-benefit-concert-raises-over-8-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/08\/texas-benefit-concert-raises-over-8-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Benefit Concert Raises Over $8.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of Texas&#8217;s biggest stars took the stage at the Moody Center in Austin on Sunday, August 17, to help those still affected by devastating floods that hit the state last month.<\/p>\n<p>It was called &#8220;Band Together Texas&#8221; and featured headliners Miranda Lambert and Parker McCollum, and it was kicked off by a moving introduction from Matthew McConaughey.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNeYUCuxvN_\/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<p>There were performances from Wade Bowen, Ryan Bingham, Pat Green, Randy Rogers Band, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>But the star power wasn&#8217;t just musical.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of well-known Texans also showed up: Dennis Quaid, Roger Clemens, former UT coach Mack Brown, and former players Vince Young, Colt McCoy, and Emmanuel Acho all made appearances.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNe8fhrMg2o\/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<p>Even &#8220;The Bachelor&#8217;s&#8221; Chris Harrison joined in.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps the best part of the night was an emotional rendition of &#8220;How Great Thou Art&#8221; by Cody Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>[tiktok url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@hannybaker\/video\/7539775629198183711&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>The event raised $8.5 million and counting.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds will support the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country and the Central Texas Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ei7pnbiwjLI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Band Together Texas&#8221; Benefit Concert Raised Over $8.5 Million for Flood Relief","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2913,6547,408],"class_list":["post-32695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-austin","tag-band-together-texas","tag-texas"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:58:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/08\/texas-benefit-concert-raises-over-8-5-million\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695","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=32695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32699,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions\/32699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}