{"id":40776,"date":"2025-07-11T19:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/george-strait-announces-intimate-texas-flood-benefit-concert\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:32:15","slug":"george-strait-announces-intimate-texas-flood-benefit-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/george-strait-announces-intimate-texas-flood-benefit-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"George Strait Announces Intimate Texas Flood Benefit Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Texas artists like Asleep at the Wheel&#8217;s Ray Benson, William Beckmann, Wade Bowen, and Hudson Westbrook are also on the bill, set for July 27 in Boerne, Texas<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/george-strait\/\" id=\"auto-tag_george-strait\" data-tag=\"george-strait\">George Strait<\/a> has announced an intimate concert event in central Texas to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/texas-floods-benefit-concerts-merch-sales-donations-1235382005\/\">benefit<\/a> those impacted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/texas-floods-death-toll-camp-mystic-1235379662\/\">the devastating floods in the state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe country legend and native Texan will take the stage at Boerne, Texas\u2019 indoor arena on July 27 for the \u201cStrait to the Heart\u201d event, which is capped at 1,000 guests due to the venue\u2019s limited capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tStrait will be joined by members of his Ace in the Hole Band at the dinner and concert, with William Beckmann, Asleep at the Wheel\u2019s Ray Benson, Wade Bowen, Dean Dillon, Riley Green, Randy Houser, Jamey Johnson, Kyle Park, and Hudson Westbrook among the event\u2019s special guests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAt least 100 people died, including more than two dozen campers and counselors from an all-girls Christian summer camp, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/texas-flood\">the floods<\/a> that swept through central\u00a0Texas over the July 4 weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe destruction and loss in our community from the recent flood is hard to wrap your head around,\u201d Strait said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cOur hearts and prayers are with you all. The goal with this event is to raise meaningful, immediate support that can be put directly into the hands of flood victims without delay, while also honoring the first responders that work tirelessly to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tProceeds from the \u201cStrait to the Heart\u201d event will go toward the Vaqueros del Mar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/texas-flood\/\" id=\"auto-tag_texas-flood\" data-tag=\"texas-flood\">Texas Flood<\/a> Relief Fund and distributed directly to affected families as well as established Hill Country funds; while tickets to the event begin at $1,000, local area first-responder will receive complimentary entry.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/george-strait-texas-flood-benefit-concert-1235384027\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas artists like Asleep at the Wheel&#8217;s Ray Benson, William Beckmann, Wade Bowen, and Hudson Westbrook are also on the bill, set for July&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}