Sentence examples for staged a benefit from inspiring English sources

Last year he staged a benefit concert.

(Austin recently staged a benefit for Artz Rib House when they fell on hard times, although I doubt the environmentalists would approve of that one).

Last year, the organisation staged a benefit event, featuring performances from Björk, Patti Smith, Of Monsters and Men, Lykke Li and others.

In 2005 Ms. Fox brought WordTheatre to Long Island, where she staged a benefit for the Pushcart Prize, which honors small literary presses, with the actors Marcia Gay Harden, David Strathairn and Andrew McCarthy.

When the Global Poverty Project staged a benefit concert with Neil Young, the Black Keys and Foo Fighters in Central Park last fall, skeptics wondered if that nonprofit's attempt to generate pressure on world leaders to help the poor would fade as soon as the amplifiers and guitars were put away.

Among those efforts is the firm's signature Founder's Field Day event, where in 2014, he says, RV hosted 400 people at AT&T Park in the afternoon, staged a "benefit concert" with the band Third Eye Blind that same night, and hired a ferry the evening before to take founder attendees to nearby Angel Island in San Francisco "so we could make the most of their time".

On 18 October at The Roundhouse, London, we are going to stage a benefit concert.

Ms. Eredita Johnson suggested to Ellie that they stage a benefit concert.

Friends had to stage a benefit for Helm's widow so that she could hold on to their house.

Comedians including satirist Marcus Brigstocke and impressionist Rory Bremner are staging a benefit concert to save a festival dedicated to a brand of humour that is a century old – silent movie slapstick.

Mr. O'Brien, who lives in Manhattan with his wife and two young children, has been having at Shakespeare every summer since 1987, when an actress friend, Melissa Stern Lourie, invited him to Putnam to stage a benefit outdoor performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".