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PHOTOS: Gone Country benefit concert raises record $842,000 in Cloverdale

The Washboard Union capped a day of country bands at event, paused by pandemic since 2019

Cloverdale鈥檚 Gone Country concert raised a record amount of money on Saturday, July 23.

Close to $842,000 was collected during this year鈥檚 sold-out benefit concert, held at Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre for the first time since 2019.

This year鈥檚 Gone Country featured music by The Washboard Union, Jojo Mason, Karen Lee Batten and others.

鈥淲e don鈥檛 know how to put into words how good it felt to be back on the field this week,鈥 .

鈥淲e will be back next year without a doubt.鈥

91原创 twins Chris and Jamie Ruscheinski lead-organize the event, which has raised money for cancer-related causes over the past eight years with the help of an army of volunteers.

(TCF) was launched when the twins鈥 mother was sick with breast cancer in 1999. She passed away more than two decades ago, along with their friend Shaun G. and others close to them, inspiring an annual benefit concert that grows in popularity every year.

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