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September music festival to benefit veterans, local non-profits

By: Shelby Olive
| Published 07/01/2016

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THE WOODLANDS, Texas — There’s a new music festival coming to town with the goal to raise money for veterans and local non-profits.

Beyond the Pines Music Festival will be held September 10 at Town Green Park. The concert series will feature major artists, including Aaron Watson, Reckless Kelly, Uncle Lucius and Paul Wall. The founders of Beyond the Pines wanted to create a music festival that united the community and served local charities.

“We believe music provides an essential platform for doing that,” Colby Dodson, one of the event’s starters, said. “We hope to create an event within The Woodlands that will be here for many years to come.”

With the event being dedicated to military servicemen and women, the group chose two non-profits that provide aid to veterans to receive funds raised at the festival. The founders’ friend, SPC Hunter Levine, received aid from the non-profit after earning a Purple Heart for his services in Iraq. He returned home fully blind, and Helping a Hero gave their friend a house. DAWG, one of the other military-focused non-profits, serves veterans by providing them with service dogs.

The group also chose the My Person Foundation and Pupsquad, two local non-profits, as additional beneficiaries of the festival’s proceeds.

“We believe that sharing our love through music with the community will only strengthen it from within,” Dodson said. “That’s our motto for the festival—Love through music, strength through community.”

Beyond the Pines will also boast several food trucks, mechanical bulls, games and much more for the whole family to enjoy, all while benefitting local charities. There will be a brunch the Sunday morning after the festival to observe the 15th anniversary of 9/11 at Doesey Doe for the group to shine light on the sacrifices made that day.

“Music heals people in a way medicine can't. At Beyond The Pines, we hope to provide a day filled with amazing music, lots of laughs, and a place where people can just enjoy their surroundings,” Dodson said. “If we can use our festivals and events to promote charities and foundations, we see it as our obligation to give back to the wonderful people who already have given back so much themselves.”

For more information about Beyond the Pines and to purchase tickets, visit btpfest.com.

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