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Country music superstar\u00a0Dwight\u00a0Yoakam\u00a0will headline the inaugural\u00a0Dwight Yoakam & Friends: Rockin\u2019 for the Kids\u00a0at The Roxy, taking place during GRAMMY week in Los Angeles. The one-night-only charity concert will be held\u00a0Wednesday,\u00a0January 28,\u00a0at the Roxy Theatre\u00a0and will benefit\u00a0Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles\u00a0(CHLA).<\/p>\n
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Tickets are available Wednesday, January 14 at 10 a.m. PT\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0A limited number of sponsor and VIP tickets are available by contacting Matt Semler at\u00a0msemler@chla.usc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Presented by\u00a0Dwight Yoakam\u00a0alongside\u00a0Billy\u00a0Bob\u00a0Thornton\u00a0and\u00a0McG, the evening will feature a full performance by Dwight Yoakam and his band, with special guest appearances by\u00a0Charley\u00a0Crockett,\u00a0Marcus King,\u00a0Lukas Nelson, and additional artists to be announced.\u00a0Renowned video director and producer McG will emcee the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n The roots of\u00a0Rockin\u2019 for the Kids\u00a0trace back to a deeply personal experience for Yoakam and his wife, Emily. A few years ago, at the height of COVID, when their son was still an infant, the new parents found themselves at Children\u2019s Hospital with\u00a0Dr. Mark Krieger, SVP and Surgeon-in-Chief at CHLA, for what gratefully turned out to be nothing of any further concern. Coincidentally, in the same time frame, Yoakam had just participated in a live-stream benefit for the Ronald McDonald House located across the street from CHLA. Dr. Krieger was aware of the connection and he thanked Yoakam for giving his support.<\/p>\n While waiting in those corridors of CHLA, Dwight and Emily witnessed hundreds of children moving through various stages of recovery and treatment, an experience that left a lasting impression. In their subsequent discussions with Dr. Krieger, Emily mentioned her profound experience working as a volunteer at Vanderbilt Children\u2019s Hospital in Nashville some years earlier. She posed the simple question: how could they give back to the hospital that cares for so many children and their families every day?<\/p>\n That conversation planted the seed for what would now become an ongoing philanthropic effort to help raise funds and awareness to CHLA\u2019s work by bringing artists together to make a tangible impact.<\/p>\n In September 2024, when Yoakam was asked to perform a charity concert at the\u00a0Lido Theatre\u00a0in\u00a0Newport Beach, owned by McG, Dwight suggested that\u00a0CHLA and Children\u2019s Hospital Orange County\u00a0be the beneficiaries of the night\u2019s fundraising. At that event, Yoakam and Dr. Krieger reconnected and discussed creating a yearly benefit during GRAMMY week and\u00a0Rockin\u2019 for the Kids\u00a0was born.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you walk the halls of a children\u2019s hospital, it changes you. It puts all of life in a very graphic perspective,\u201d said Dwight Yoakam. \u201cAs Emily and I were there with our own child, we saw so many families facing battles no one hopes to ever have to endure. And while we were fortunate to not face those challenges, that experience never left us.\u00a0Rockin\u2019 for the Kids\u00a0is our way of saying thank you to Dr. Krieger and the entire staff at Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles, on behalf of every family who puts their trust in them every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOn behalf of everyone at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, we are thrilled to be partnering with Mr. Yoakam and his wife on what is sure to be a truly special evening,\u201d says Mark D. Krieger, MD, the hospital\u2019s Surgeon-in-Chief and the Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Chair in Neurosurgery. \u201cWe are grateful to Dwight and Emily for their passion and vision in bringing this night to life.\u201d<\/p>\n ABOUT DWIGHT YOAKAM<\/p>\n With more than 25 million albums sold worldwide, Dwight Yoakam is a 21-time GRAMMY nominee and multiple GRAMMY Award winner. His catalog includes 12 gold albums and 9 platinum or multi-platinum releases, with five reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and 14 placing in the Top 10. Nearly 40 of his singles have charted on Billboard, including 14 Top 10 hits.<\/p>\n He is a recipient of the Americana Music Association\u2019s Artist of the Year Award and BMI Country Music\u2019s President\u2019s Award, and in 2019 was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Yoakam\u2019s most recent release, Brighter Days (Via Records\/Thirty Tigers), arrived in November 2024 and marked his first album of new material in nine years.<\/p>\n Written and recorded over a multi-year period, the collection includes twelve original songs written or co-written by Yoakam, along with covers of \u201cKeep On the Sunny Side,\u201d \u201cBound Away,\u201d and Chris Hillman\u2019s \u201cTime Between.”<\/p>\n A dedicated steward of musical heritage, Yoakam launched his SiriusXM channel,\u00a0Dwight\u00a0Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat: Where Country Went Mod, in 2018. The channel celebrates the Bakersfield sound and its lasting influence, featuring music, interviews, archival recordings, and guest appearances from artists such as Post Malone, Lukas Nelson, Beck, Chris Hillman, Jakob Dylan, and Jackie DeShannon<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfad NEW! 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