The Harvey Can’t Mess With Texas: A Benefit Concert for Hurricane Harvey Relief took place Friday, September 23, 2017 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin.
Willie, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Leon Bridges, Ryan Bingham, and others will come together for the largest live benefit concert in Texas.
We knew going in that the SNL 40th anniversary special would be chock-full of just about every famous person who has ever walked within spitting distance of 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the opening monologue was quick to make use of this genuinely insane temporary cast of stars. Things got started on the right foot when the always-welcome Steve Martin took the stage ... but then he was joined by Tom Hanks. And then things got really crazy.
During Sunday’s ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Paul Simon gave a haunting acoustical performance of ‘The Sound of Silence’ while some onlookers wept.