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Emmylou Harris to play intimate concert for 70 benefiting dog rescue

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Country singer and songwriter Emmylou Harris will play in an unusually intimate setting on April 26, a few days before her performance slot at the 2016 Stagecoach Country Music Festival, for a fundraiser concert benefiting the animal shelter she’s long supported.

Harris is slated to perform at the Cannery Restaurant in Newport Beach for an audience of just 70 people at the event for which tickets will cost $750.

Proceeds from tickets to the concert and four-course dinner will benefit Bonaparte’s Retreat, which Harris founded in 2004, and its Crossroads Campus offshoot, which work to reduce the number of dogs that are euthanized each year.

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The Crossroads Campus brings in at-risk youth in the Nashville area, placing them as interns to assist at the Crossroads Pet Shot & Adopt store that finds homes for abandoned or abused dogs.

The operation’s website says it has “a 78% success rate for their internships, whereupon by the end of their initial internship young people were either offered extended internships, enrolled full-time in school or were hired from an outside employer.”

Ticket information is available at (949) 566-0060.

Harris last played Stagecoach in 2007, at the inaugural edition of the country counterpart to the Coachella Music & Arts Festival, at the same site at the Empire Polo Field in Indio. She is scheduled to perform this year on April 29.

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