{"id":108779,"date":"2026-01-18T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=108779"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:52:35","slug":"dwight-yoakam-hosting-star-studded-charity-concert-for-childrens-hospital-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/01\/dwight-yoakam-hosting-star-studded-charity-concert-for-childrens-hospital-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwight Yoakam Hosting Star-Studded Charity Concert For Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dwight Yoakam<\/strong>\u00a0will headline a benefit concert on January 28th at the Roxy on Los Angeles\u2019 Sunset Strip to support Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inaugural \u201cDwight Yoakam &amp; Friends: Rockin\u2019 for the Kids\u201d features Grammy nominees\u00a0<strong>Charley Crockett\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Lukas Nelson<\/strong>, plus\u00a0<strong>Marcus King<\/strong>, with additional special guests to be announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Billy Bob Thornton<\/strong>\u00a0and director\u00a0<strong>McG<\/strong>\u00a0will emcee the Grammy-week event. The benefit stems from Yoakam and wife Emily\u2019s experience at CHLA when their son required medical attention from Dr. Mark Krieger, the hospital\u2019s senior vice president and surgeon-in-chief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you walk the halls of a children\u2019s hospital, it changes you,\u201d Yoakam said. \u201cRockin\u2019 for the Kids is our way of saying thank you to Dr. Krieger and the entire staff at Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles.\u201d Tickets are available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dwightyoakam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dwightyoakam.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTdd6P7ES8X\/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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dwight Yoakam\u00a0will headline a benefit concert on January 28th at the Roxy on Los Angeles\u2019 Sunset Strip to support Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles. The inaugural \u201cDwight Yoakam &amp; Friends: Rockin\u2019 for the Kids\u201d features Grammy nominees\u00a0Charley Crockett\u00a0and\u00a0Lukas Nelson, plus\u00a0Marcus King, with additional special guests to be announced.\u00a0 Billy Bob Thornton\u00a0and director\u00a0McG\u00a0will emcee the Grammy-week event.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":107336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[11752,3930],"class_list":["post-108779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-childrens-hospital-los-agneles","tag-dwight-yoakam"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 01:54:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/01\/dwight-yoakam-hosting-star-studded-charity-concert-for-childrens-hospital-los-angeles\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108805,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108779\/revisions\/108805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}