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WILLIE
NELSON AND FAMILY PERFORMANCE IN NYC
RAISES
$60,000 FOR INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND TO BENEFIT WOUNDED
MILITARY HEROES
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First
in a Series of “Cabaret for a Cause” Shows will Help Build
NICoE Satellite Centers to Diagnose and Treat Traumatic
Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress
New York,
NY (June 7, 2013) – Willie
Nelson and
Family, headed by one of music’s most spectacular singers,
songwriters and all-out showmen, played a one-hour set of
his greatest hits to a packed room at the Four
Seasons Restaurant in
New York City recently, raising $60,000 to benefit the Intrepid
Fallen Heroes Fund (IFHF)
and the military men and women of our nation.
Introduced by legendary newsman Dan
Rather, Anchor and Managing Editor for AXS TV's Dan
Rather Reports, Nelson
and his band performed “Crazy,”
“Whiskey River,” “Help Me Make It Through the Night,”
“Always on My Mind,” “Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to
Be Cowboys,” and
closed with “Roll
Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die” as
an encore to more than 150 cheering fans.
The show was a first in a series of “Cabaret
for a Cause” shows, to assist in a drive to raise $100
million for the construction of nine NICoE
(National Intrepid Center of Excellence) Satellite Centers at
military bases around the country, designed to provide new
hope for those suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
and Post Traumatic Stress (PTS). The show and the series is
the vision of Susan
Rudin and Wendy
Kleinman.
Willie’s new album, “Let’s
Face the Music and Dance,” was released on April 16, is
a collection of new studio performances by Willie Nelson and
Family and is receiving rave reviews.
About the Intrepid
Fallen Heroes Fund
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, a national
leader in supporting the men and women of the United States
Armed Forces and their families, has provided over $150
million in support for the families of military personnel
lost in service to our nation, and for severely wounded
military personnel and veterans. The Fund most recently
opened the
National Intrepid Center of Excellence to support the
research, diagnosis, and treatment of military personnel and
veterans suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI). In
2013 the Fund launched a new $100 million campaign to build
nine NICoE satellite centers at major military bases around
the country. These satellite centers will extend the care
provided at NICoE to more service members and veterans
suffering TBI, PTS and related afflictions.
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