On December 3rd, 2023, City Winery and Steve Earle are hosting the 9th annual John Henry's Friends benefit concert to raise funds for children diagnosed with autism. Joining Steve Earle will be John Mellencamp, & Amy Helm, David Bromberg, and Matt Savage who will each join with short sets of their own, making an unforgettable night of amazing music. All net ticket proceeds will be donated to The Keswell School, an educational program for children and young adults with autism. Founded on the belief that children diagnosed with ASD can live full and productive lives as integrated members of their communities, The Keswell School provides educational, therapeutic and supportive services for children diagnosed with ASD and their families. This is a topic dear to Steve, as his son, John Henry, attends the school.
VIP PACKAGES:
All VIP Tickets Includes a ticket to Town Hall (orchestra seats) plus admission to the After Party at City Vineyard immediately following the show
VIP TICKET: $300 (12/3)
VIP TICKETS TO TOWN HALL & AFTER PARTY (12/3): $1,500
THE ULTIMATE VIP EXPERIENCE: $5,000
A PRIVATE DINNER FOR 8 WITH STEVE EARLE AT CITY WINERY: $8,500
VIP Ticket - ($250) (300)
Includes a ticket for best seat in the house (orchestra seat) plus admission to the After Party at City Winery. (Right after the show)
Dinner with Steve WITHOUT tickets to the Town Hall show - ($750) (x10)
Be a part of an intimate dinner with Steve Earle ,5 course dinner paired with 5 wines at City Winery the night before the Town Hall show. in an intimate setting of up to 20, includes a sign poster by Steve Earle & guests. This package includes a pair of tickets to the rehearsal show at The Loft at CIty Winery Pier 57 only. (12/2)
5pm ( Start ), end time 7pm. doors 4:30
food info (TBD, no need for specifics on this one)
Dinner with Steve WITH tickets to the Town Hall show ($1,500) (x10) (20 VIP tickets)
Be a part of an intimate dinner with Steve Earle ,5 course dinner paired with 5 wines at City Winery the night before the Town Hall show. In an intimate setting of up to 20, includes a sign poster by all the artists. This includes a pair of tickets to the rehearsal show at The Loft @ Pier 57 (12/2) and a pair of VIP Tickets for Town Hall show (12/3) and admission to the after party at City Vineyard.
5pm ( Start ), end time 7pm. doors 4:30
food info (TBD, no need for specifics on this one)
Ultimate VIP Pass - ($5,000) (x2) (4 VIP tickets)
Includes a pair of VIP ticket, access to rehearsals at City Winery and admission to rehearsal show at The Loft (12/2), access to soundcheck and backstage at Town Hall (12/3), signed poster by all
the artists and admission to the after party at The Loft post show.
Private Dinner Package W/ Steve Earle- ($8,500) (x2) (16 VIP tickets)
A private dinner for 8 with Steve Earle at City Winery private room at a date TBD. Includes 8 VIP tickets to the Town Hall show (12/3)
Total VIP tickets: 340 (40 are for packages)
About The Artists
Steve Earle is one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of his generation. A protege of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, he quickly became a master storyteller in his own right, with his songs being recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, The Pretenders, and countless others. 1986 saw the release of his record, Guitar Town, which shot to number one on the country charts and is now regarded as a classic of the Americana genre.Most recently, Earle’s 1988hitCopperhead Road was made an official state song of Tennessee in 2023.
Subsequent releases like The Revolution Starts...Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007), and TOWNES (2009) received consecutive GRAMMY® Awards. His most recent album, Jerry Jeff(2022)consisted of Earle’s versions of songs written by Jerry Jeff Walker, one of his mentors. Earle has published both a novel I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011) and Dog House Roses, a collection of short stories (Houghton Mifflin2003). Earle produced albums for other artists such as Joan Baez (Day After Tomorrow)and LucindaWilliams (Car Wheels On A Gravel Road)
As an actor, Earle has appeared in several films and had recurring roles in the HBO series The Wire and Tremé. In 2009, Earle appeared in the off-Broadway play Samara, for which he also wrote a score that The New York Times described as “exquisitely subliminal.” Earle wrote music for and appeared in Coal Country, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Earle is the host of the weekly show Hard Core Troubadour on Sirius Radio’s Outlaw Country channel.
In 2020,Earle was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.And in 2023, Steve was honored by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music.
JOHN MELLENCAMP
Mellencamp is a member of the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame, a recipient of the John Steinbeck Award, ASCAP Foundation’s Champion Award, The Woody Guthrie Award, the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and most recently, the Founders Award, the top honor assigned by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Her voice, first. Amy Helm has a voice of a thousand ways, twists and turns, ascensions and intentions. It soars, flays, pleads, celebrates, guides, heals, teaches, and above all Amy Helm’s voice makes you feel. Her own emotion enables and encourages the lids and layers to come off your own, as you listen to her on a recording, or in performance. This alone would be enough; but Helm has been much more than a singer for a long time. After decades of practicing and perfecting her arts, Helm has shaped herself into a unique force, personality, and woman in the world of music—and the far wider world of all who love music.
Amy Helm’s early days in ensembles, and learning from many artists, engendered in her two vast strengths: her capabilities as a performer, and her power as a collaborator and teacher. The blended talents of her New York City-based band Ollabelle, formed in 2001, show just how broad and deep Helm’s musical knowledge and abilities go.
Amy’s first solo albums, Didn’t It Rain (2015) and This Too Shall Light (2018), are a diptych, showing two views of a remarkable woman and what she can do. Her most recent release, What The Flood Leaves Behind (2021) combines the strengths fostered in Helm in the Hudson Valley, and by musicians she has known and performed with for decades, with her own increasingly formidable writing and singing.
Catch her when you can, because Amy Helm is in constant motion these days. Writing and recording new songs, on the road again, organizing the annual Dirt Farmer music festival, and curating at Levon Helm Studios a monthly series of Midnight Rambles, she is a woman of seemingly boundless energy and passions. Asked what she wants from her career now, Helm replies, “I want what I think every artist wants at our core, continued creative expression as the ultimate freedom. To hold it because it’s our calling and our birthright.”
Keswell School Mission
All net proceeds raised by ticket sales will be donated to The Keswell School (formerly known as The McCarton School), an educational program for children and young adults with Autism. Founded on the belief that children diagnosed with ASD can live full and productive lives as integrated members of their communities, The Keswell School provides educational, therapeutic and supportive services for children diagnosed with ASD and their families.