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The Tenors Raise $20K for #TorontoStrongFund

The Canadian trio has completed three PBS specials and donated ticket sales from one to a fund aiding victims of the van attack in April that killed 10 people and injured 16 in Toronto.

The Tenors Raise $20K for #TorontoStrongFund

By Karen Bliss

Canadian vocal group The Tenors have done three PBS television specials before, but their fourth was the only one for which proceeds from ticket sales went to charity, #TorontoStrong Fund, which was set up by the City of Toronto and Toronto Foundation for the victims of the van attack in April that killed 10 people and injured 16.


The multi-platinum-selling trio — Victor Micallef, Fraser Walters, and Clifton Murray  — filmed the TV show over two nights in early June at Toronto's Elgin Theatre and raised $20,000 through a minimum donation of $10 per ticket. 

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Drummer Frank Beard of American rock band ZZ Top at their concert in Munich, Germany 1986.
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Drummer Frank Beard of American rock band ZZ Top at their concert in Munich, Germany 1986.

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Obituaries: Tributes to ZZ Top's Frank Beard, Actor/Singer Hayden Panettiere

This week we also acknowledge the passing of Hall of Fame blues/R&B singer Latimore and legendary Australian music industry veteran Johnny Young.

Frank Lee Beard, drummer with Texan rock greats ZZ Top for 56 years, died on Aug. 17, at age 77.

A press release from longtime band publicist Bob Merlis confirmed his passing, stating that Beard was “in hospice care when he passed away at his ranch in Richmond, TX with family members at his side.”

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