Dierks Bentley concert raises $476,000 for families of Yarnell 19
On Monday night, Phoenix, Arizona native Dierks Bentley put on the Country Cares Concert to benefit the families of the 19 firefighters who died in Arizona last month.
Alongside The Band Perry, Randy Houser and David Nail the show entertained a capacity crowd and raised nearly half-a-million dollars in the process for the families of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who lost all but one of their crew in a deadly fire.
The surviving member, Brendan McDonough, was on hand for the concert and was brought up on stage by Bentley and presented a check for $476,000. The above photo shared by KMLE shows Brendan with Dierks.
The evening included a special version of Bentley’s song “Home” with a bagpipe intro by the Rural Metro Pipe and Drum Corp., as well as a photo tribute to the Granite Mountain Hotshots.
Houser tweeted:
Amazing night! $472k raised tonight for the #yarnell19 families! I am very proud to have been a part of this!
— Randy Houser (@RandyHouser) July 23, 2013
It’s been a long hard ride
Got a ways to go
This is still the place
That we all call home
