“Good music for a good cause” will be offered in Luckenbach starting at 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 12, as part of the 13th Waylon’s Birthday Bash.
Admission to the event is a suggested $10 donation to The Good Samaritan Clinic.
Held annually since 2004, Waylon’s Birthday Bash is a “rousing” party and concert celebrating legendary country
performer Waylon Jennings, his life and music.
This year’s show features Thomas Michael Riley.
The event is always held in Luckenbach in part because Jennings’ eponymously titled hit song helped make
the little town where “Everybody is Somebody” a national phenomenon in the 1970s, explained John Willome, executive director of The Good Samaritan Center.
Beginning in 2005, the event developed a second, more sobering purpose as a charitable benefit to promote awareness about diabetes and to raise contributions for the on-going Good Samaritan Center diabetes program, Willome said.
Jennings died Feb. 12, 2002, after a long battle with diabetes-related health problems. He was 64.
“Luckenbach came to us with the idea of supporting our diabetic patients with their proceeds from this event,” Willome said. “I think they wanted to find a way to give back to the community and to honor a man who meant so much to them.”
The Good Samaritan Center is a charitable medical and dental clinic that helps lowincome, uninsured families in Gillespie County, as well as Blanco, Kimble and Mason counties. It has more than 360 active diabetic patients.
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