Don to play benefit in Linden on Oct. 25

[sodascouts]

I see this hasn't been posted yet!

According to the Shreveport Times, Don is playing a benefit in his hometown of Linden, TX on Oct. 25. Tickets went on sale today. Here is the site blurb:

Spend an intimate Saturday evening on October 25, 2008, with Don Henley in concert benefiting the Cass County Courthouse Restoration Project in Linden, Texas. The concert begins at 7:00 p.m. at Music City Texas Theater in Linden. Tickets are $1,000 each, a portion of which is tax deductible, and are available now, with only 420 tickets to be issued.

This very special evening includes a private after-concert reception for all ticket holders and an opportunity to meet and speak with Mr. Henley. Net proceeds from the concert will help supply matching funds to supplement the $4.4 million grant the Texas Historical Commission recently awarded Cass County to restore its historic courthouse.


You can get tickets here.

[Prettymaid]

I see this hasn't been posted yet!

According to the Shreveport Times, Don is playing a benefit in his hometown of Linden, TX on Oct. 25. Tickets are $1,000 each, a portion of which is tax deductible, and are available now, with only 420 tickets to be issued.

You can get tickets here.

Yeah, I'll go right now and get mine.

[sodascouts]

I knew I wasn't going to go, but I clicked anyway on Friday to see what I would get. I got the last front row seat available.

Ah, if only I could afford it! But it's too steep for me. I sadly canceled it.

For those who have the money, though, I can see why this would be appealing! You get to talk to Don as well as see the concert.

[glenneaglesfan]

Wow, to see Don in an 'intimate' setting, and meet him - that would have been something. Too bad your funds wouldn't allow it, Soda. To have secured a front row seat and then relinquish it shows commendable restraint!

[Peekaboo]

A girl can dream...and i'm gonna have to keep on dreaming. That's just too much money for me. If only...

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Yeah - sometimes it sucks not being rich!

[DonFan]

I am crushed that I won't be able to attend. It is an admirable cause and a wonderful intimate venue, and I would love to be able to talk to Don, but no matter how much I want to, I simply can't afford it.

[Mrs Henley]

I would do anything to go there, but it's just too expensive ..

[Troubadour]

Argh, I would give anything to be able to go to that show!

[DonFan]

I really wish I could go too! But like the man who wrote this article in today's Houston Chronicle, I am a couple of grand short of having the couple of grand it takes to attend. *sigh*

An Eagle comes home

Chronicle archives

Linden, Texas, native and Eagles co-founder Don Henley returns to his hometown Saturday for his third benefit performance at the Music City Texas Theater.

Got plans for Saturday night? Got a couple of grand you can part with?
Head up to Linden, Texas, this Saturday (Oct. 24) and you can catch Don Henley in a benefit concert in the intimate, 420-seat Music City Texas Theater.
The Eagles founder and hometown boy who began his musical career in the '60s as a high-school rock 'n' roller up in the Northeast Texas woodlands made it to the top of the top, yet he's never turned his back the area where he grew up.
The concert benefits the Cass County Courthouse Restoration Project in Linden. Tickets are $1,000 each, and were available early this week. Only 420 tickets will be issued.
Included with a ticket is a private after-concert reception for all ticket holders and a meet-and-greet with Henley. Net proceeds from the concert will help supply matching funds to supplement the $4.4 million grant the Texas Historical Commission recently awarded Cass County to restore its historic courthouse.
Music City Texas Theater is run by Henley's old Four Speeds, Felicity and Shiloh bandmate, Richard Bowden. Richard toured with his cousin and hometown bandmate Mike Bowden, Glen Frey and Henley in Linda Ronstadt's band in the early 70s, before Henley and Frey formed the Eagles.
After almost 30 years as a touring musician, Bowden moved back to his hometown in the late '90s to tend to his "widowed and again mother," he says on his Web site. He won a seat on the City Council, and in 2000 and 2001, signed on with the Eagles as a guitar/bass tech. In addition, he helped get the Music City Texas Theater off the ground in 2003 by chairing the nonprofit organization that runs it. He can be found on the stage regularly and in the studio on occasion. (That's the short version.)
The 5½-year-old theater was carved out of an old American Legion Hall that was built about 60 years ago. It offers entertainment ranging from nationally known artists to regional and local entertainers from all genres of music.
In 2004, Henley performed two shows and Jackson Browne performed an acoustic show, both benefits which gave the theater a little financial breathing room.
This year, Merle Haggard, Rodney Crowell, Hal Ketchum, Gene Watson and Mac McAnally have played the theater. Scheduled to play in November and December are Houston cowboy singer and folkie Don Sanders, George Jones and Asleep at the Wheel. In addition, the theater hosts an annual T. Bone Walker Blues Festival, in honor of Linden native Aaron Thibeaux Walker, who was born there in 1910. For a town of a little more than 2,200 people 150 miles miles from Dallas and 26o miles from Houston, this is quite a venue.
Linden is about 5 hours up U.S. 59 from downtown Houston. It might be wise to make sure you have tickets before heading up there.
I'm afraid I won't be there. I have to work Saturday night and I'm a couple of grand short of having a couple of grand. But if you have an extra ticket and need to give it away, I'll ditch work and help pay for gas.