Tickets going fast for Toby Keith benefit for Café Liberty

Part of first-ever Freedom & Dignity Festival coming Aug. 10

Time is slipping away to purchase tickets to the Freedom & Dignity Festival, scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 10 beginning at 3 p.m. at the Schaumburg Boomers Baseball Stadium in Schaumburg. This is the inaugural country music festival to support Café Liberty and our armed forces veterans and their families seeking training and self-sufficiency.
The headliner for the evening, beginning at 9 p.m., is country music star performer Toby Keith.
“We were delighted to have Toby Keith agree to perform a benefit concert for Café Liberty,” said Dan Gibbons, founder of Café Liberty and the Dan Gibbons Turkey Trot (DGTT) Foundation. “He has a big heart for veterans, he has the utmost respect for our armed forces and was happy for the opportunity to help out Liberty Café, once he learned that our mission is to help veterans help themselves, not just give them a handout.”
The mission at Café Liberty is based on the old saying, “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day; teach how to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.”
“We are offering veterans an opportunity to learn something in order to be self-sufficient, get a job, start a business, whatever they’d like to do,” Gibbons said. “It’s a free training opportunity for veterans and their families, not just a free handout, which does nothing for anyone’s feeling of dignity and self-respect.”
Impressed with the efforts of Café Liberty, Toby Keith was honored by the request and willingly offered to perform the benefit concert.

About the festival…
The Freedom & Dignity Festival will be held all day Saturday, Aug. 10 beginning at 3 p.m., when live musical entertainment begins and continues through the day and into the evening.
The complete entertainment line-up is:
Toby Keith – headliner [onstage at 9 p.m.]
Craig Walker
Colt Ford
Craig Campbell
Six String Crossing – [opening 3:30 p.m.]
“We expect to sell out,” said Gibbons. “If we don’t sell out prior to the concert date, we will have ‘walk-up’ ticket sales that day, however, those tickets will be at a premium price. Now is the time to buy. Tickets will never be more affordable than they are now.”
Tickets are available at FreedomandDignityFestival.org.

Buy a ticket for a veteran
If, by chance, you are unable to attend the festival, you can purchase a ticket for a veteran.
Simply go to our website, go to “Buy Tickets Here” and scroll down to the option:
Donate: Tickets For Veterans
Parking info: Parking passes must be purchased in advance on the website. VIP parking is sold out. General parking is available for $20.
Metra train: Metra has a stop right at the ballpark, serving as another option.
As alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase, it might be a good idea to use a service like Uber to travel to and from the Festival.

More about Toby Keith…
For nearly two decades, Toby Keith has been part of the USO entourage that travels to the other side of the world to entertain U.S. troops that are in harm’s way. The USO goes to all corners of the earth where men and women in uniform are deployed to defend our freedom. Everywhere the USO has been, Toby Keith has been as well including: Afghanistan, Kuwait, Germany, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Italy, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba), Belgium.
“When the opportunity to stage a country music festival was presented to us, we gave it strong consideration,” said Gibbons. “And when landing Toby Keith as our headliner became a reality, we decided to go for it.”
All proceeds from the concert will benefit Café Liberty.
“We see a need to expand in the very near future and we don’t want to turn down someone wanting job training and a career in the hospitality industry,” Gibbons said.