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Seats are still available for the 27th Annual Neal McCoy and Friends Benefit Concert in Longview.
Two-time Grammy nominee and county music star Jo Dee Messina is expected to join Longview’s Neal McCoy as part of the lineup at LeTourneau University’s Belcher Center.
The concert benefits the East Texas Angel Network, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 by McCoy and his wife, Melinda, to financially assist families with children with serious illnesses and / or disabilities.
Messina attended the 2013 fundraising sponsors dinner, but this will be her first year performing at the concert.
Tickets can be purchased on the Belcher Center website and at easttexasangelnetwork.com/events/.
Doors open at 6 p.m. and the concert begins at 7 p.m.
The annual fall fundraiser includes a golf tournament, sponsors’ dinner, concert and meet and greet for the “angels†who benefit from the fundraiser and their families.
The golf tournament scheduled for Friday at Wood Hollow Golf Club is sold out.
A modified version of the network’s annual events was offered in 2020 due to COVID-19 as the concert was being held as a virtual event.
An online livestream of the event will again be offered free, with donations accepted, on easttexasangelnetwork.com, the East Texas Angel Network Facebook page and nealmccoy.com.
“We did (the virtual concert) last year because we had to do it, and we just realized, ‘Why don’t we keep doing it because we’ve raised so much money? East Texas Angel Network executive director Miki Dougherty, who is also McCoy’s daughter, previously said. not.”
Dougherty said the Angel Network will offer a way to donate during the concert similar to last year’s event.
While the network doesn’t pay medical bills, it does help families by helping them pay housing bills, utility bills, and other side expenses that tend to increase when parents quit their jobs to get closer. of their sick children. Since its inception, the network has raised over $ 10 million and helped over 600 families.
The annual concert and other weekend activities raise funds that support the network throughout the year until the next concert. McCoy, who was recently known for his Facebook live videos of the Pledge of Allegiance, has been joined at past concerts by artists such as Tracy Byrd, Randy Travis, Restless Heart and her mentor, Charley Pride.
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