Sturgill Simpson Plots North Carolina Show Benefitting Hurricane Relief Efforts

Sturgill Simpson will play a special benefit show in North Carolina this month, with all proceeds going to relief and recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene.

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Simpson was slated to play Asheville on Oct. 21 as part of his tour in support of Passage du Desir , but that gig was canceled because of hurricane damage. Simpson has now moved that show to the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, North Carolina, where he was already scheduled to play following night, Oct. 22.

Tickets for the Oct. 21 gig will go on sale Oct. 11 at 10 a.m. local time, while a local venue pre-sale will take place Oct. 10 at 10 a.m.. All funds from the event will be donated to the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund.

Hurricane Helene caused significant damage across wide swaths of the southeastern United States last weekend and the death toll currently sits at over 200 people. Western North Carolina was one of the hardest hit areas, and Asheville in particular saw severe damage from storms, flooding, and mudslides. The city’s famous River Arts District — the epicenter for a town that’s long been a haven for musicians an artists — was completely wiped out.

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“The RAD is going to need a lot of love,” Russ Keith, owner of the popular Asheville, club the Grey Eagle, told Rolling Stone . “Everybody’s impacted.” (More info on how to contribute to relief efforts in Asheville and elsewhere is here .)

For the time being, all concerts in Asheville have been canceled as relief efforts continue. MJ Lenderman was also forced to postpone the first couple dates of his upcoming tour because most the band’s families are based in Asheville.

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