““Tonight, my Dad and a bunch of other fantastic musicians will perform at “Harvey Can’t Mess With Texas”, a concert & live telethon to benefit the victims Of Hurrican Harvey. Texans will be able to view the televised telethon portion of the concert on Friday, September 22 from 7 pm to 8 pm CST on TEGNA affiliate stations. Besides Austin’s KVUE, other TEGNA stations set to air the concert are WFAA in Dallas, KHOU in Houston, KENS in San Antonio, KBMT in Beaumont, KCEN in Waco-T…emple-Bryan, KAGS in College Station, KIII in Corpus Christi, KIDY in San Angelo, KXVA in Abilene and KYTX in Tyler. The telecast will air without commercials.
In addition, an hour of the event will stream internationally on https://www.youtube.com/KHOU11 from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. Central Time. Google will match $500,000 in telethon donations, with volunteers from Google’s Austin office and employees of TEGNA working the telethon phone banks. Donations also will be accepted at the RebuildTX.org website.
All funds will be directed to the RebuildTX.org fund. Proceeds will benefit the Rebuild Texas Fund, created by the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation in collaboration with the OneStar Foundation. According to the Rebuild Texas website, the fund “will support community partners in four focus areas — health and housing; schools and child care; workforce and transportation; and capital for rebuilding small businesses.” The concert is part of the Dell Foundation’s effort to raise $100 million toward hurricane recovery efforts.
Please watch and donate what you can! #TexasStrong”
