Sentence examples for played benefit from inspiring English sources

He has played benefit after benefit for charity, even when he himself was busted, or nearly so.

As the Neville Brothers, they consciously made themselves both a family band and ambassadors of New Orleans; following Hurricane Katrina, they played benefit after benefit.

Look at the long list of people who played benefit gigs for such causes as the miners' strike or Red Wedge and you'll find such seemingly unlikely names as Wham! and Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp.

Throughout this year a number of Capricorn acts have played benefit concerts to raise money for Carter's campaign and Carter, in turn, has introduced the Allman Brothers on stage.

In 1938 he gave his last concert in Barcelona; a year later he went into voluntary exile in France and spent the war in Prada de Conflent, a Catalan village on the French side of the Spanish border, where he visited Spaniards in refugee camps and played benefit concerts for the Free French, forces who opposed the Nazis and the Vichy rule in Paris.

Indie musicians play benefit gigs for him in Williamsburg.

When White died in June at 50, his platinum-selling admirers volunteered to play benefit concerts for his family.

Pretty soon John was playing benefit concerts, including for the White Panther John Sinclair and for mentally disabled children at the infamous Willowbrook State School on Staten Island.

After a year of playing benefit gigs in mining communities up and down the country, witnessing class war at first hand, I began writing songs that spoke in the ideological language of the left.

Founder Dave Brock says they're still playing benefit gigs for causes they support.

Other Cube supporters and musicians have contributed by playing benefit gigs.