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Nov 6, 1925
Uncle Dave Macon, Sid Harkreader and Dr. Humphrey Bate perform at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in a benefit concert that airs on WSM Radio. It's the first country music show broadcast from the Ryman, the future home of the Grand Ole Opry
Jan 26, 1931
Comedian Will Rogers and Jimmie Rodgers begin a tour together in San Antonio at the Memorial Auditorium. The tour covers 50 cities in 18 days, earning more than $225,000 for the American Red Cross
Mar 3, 1940
Woody Guthrie joins Lead Belly, Will Geer and Alan Lomax, among others, to perform at a labor union fundraiser at New York's Forrest Theater attended by Pete Seeger. The show helps launch Guthrie to prominence as a singer/songwriter
Dec 4, 1940
Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy and Tex Ritter are among a number of Hollywood cowboys who team up for a live radio broadcast to raise money for British children victimized by Nazi bombing raids
Dec 22, 1947
Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys headline a benefit at the Lyric Theater in Knoxville, raising $704 for the Empty Stocking Fund
Jun 13, 1952
Hank Snow visits patients at the Charles Camsell TB Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. One of the patients, Harry Rusk, is inspired to become a singing Canadian evangelist
Feb 22, 1953
A benefit concert in Louisville raises $9,000 for Bill Monroe, who broke 19 bones in a January car accident. Among the artists on the bill: Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Red Foley, Lew Childre, Carl Smith and Mother Maybelle Carter & The Carter Sisters
Mar 17, 1956
Pete Seeger leads a benefit concert to raise money for singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie, who is suffering from Huntington's chorea, at New York's Pythian Hall. The concert is considered a significant event in the revival of folk music
Jan 23, 1957
T. Texas Tyler plays a benefit for the March of Dimes at the Oakley Theatre in Idaho
Jan 11, 1960
Webb Pierce headlines the first of two nights of benefit concerts in Memphis for Red Sovine and his band, seven weeks after a car accident. Also on the bill are Mel Tillis, Wayne Walker, Bobby Sykes and Bill Phillips
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