{"id":282819,"date":"2026-05-07T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282819\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:31:07","slug":"texas-rangers-broadcaster-eric-nadel-hosting-dallas-benefit-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282819\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Rangers broadcaster Eric Nadel hosting Dallas benefit concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts-entertainment\/music\/2025\/05\/23\/eric-nadel-on-his-rangers-radio-call-that-hed-ask-rhett-miller-to-turn-into-a-song\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Nadel<\/a> isn\u2019t calling a baseball game, chances are he\u2019s scouting a band. The longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/rangers\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> radio broadcaster is a music fanatic, combing clubs and festivals for groups that just might wind up playing his Dallas birthday-and-benefit concert.<\/p>\n<p>For the 14th annual event, marking Nadel\u2019s 75th trip around the sun, he\u2019s tapped two high-energy acts: Sammy Rae &amp; The Friends, led by rambunctious Brooklyn singer Samantha Bowers, and Chuck Prophet and His Cumbia Shoes, the California Latin-rock band whose album Wake the Dead landed on several best-of-2024 lists.<\/p>\n<p>The concert benefits the Grant\u00a0Halliburton Foundation, a Dallas nonprofit that provides mental health education and resources to children, teens and their families.<\/p>\n<p>7:30\u00a0p.m. May 14, Longhorn Ballroom, 216 Corinth St., Dallas. $26 and up. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prekindle.com\/event\/19275-eric-nadels-birthday-benefit-featuring-sammy-rae-and-the-friends-with-special-guest-chuck-prophet-dallas\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prekindle.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Eric Nadel isn\u2019t calling a baseball game, chances are he\u2019s scouting a band. The longtime Texas Rangers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,100868,87998,90335,88950,98969],"class_list":["post-282819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-sports-rangers","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-mental-health","tag-tp-music","tag-tp-musicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}