The original owners and management team of Buttons Restaurant, formerly located in Fort Worth, Addison and DeSoto, Texas, have united to host “The Button’s Family Affair Benefit Concert” in support of Chef Keith “Buttons” Hicks. The Award-winning Chef behind the restaurant’s original food and music for the soul, has been diagnosed with end-stage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). He is in palliative care and needs a double lung transplant. The Buttons Family is asking for love, support and prayers from the community.
“We hosted countless benefit events and celebrations at Buttons Restaurant that was due to our pure love and compassion for the community,” said Carolyn Hughes, former co-owner of Buttons Restaurant. “I am asking the community to support Chef Keith by attending this benefit concert in his honor. For so many years, he brought so much ‘Love, Peace and Gritz’ to each of our lives and now he needs us.”
The “Button’s Family Affair Benefit Concert” in support of Chef Keith “Buttons” Hicks will feature spectacular performances by well-known bands that performed in the restaurant’s Fort Worth, Addison and DeSoto locations. Confirmed list of performers include Rob Holbert Band, Natural Change, Melanie Dutton, Paul Cannon, Kenya Crawford, Bergette Rideau, Lori Dawn, Tone Sommers, Monty McKlinton, Quinton Moore, Killa Bug, Linny Nance, Taylor Pace, Stephanie Sallie, Kurt and Ceici Jones, Bobby Counts, Honorary Howard Scott, Fredrick Nicholson Band, Jackie Don Loe, Second Nature, Sam Jones, Roxie and Ashleigh Smith, Lewis Stephens, Velvet and Jerry Clark, Ahmad Johnson and John Adams.
A true Buttons family reunion, many of the restaurant’s former owners, managers, chefs, bartenders, servers and hostesses will attend and contribute to the evening. Former Buttons Chefs Billy Kidd and Ty Frazier will treat attendees to popular southern appetizers from the Buttons Restaurant’s original menu. There will also be additional food items and food trucks on site including Fat Face Full by Angie Edwards, Angi’s Louisiana Kitchen, and The Rim Restaurant Waterside.
The “Button’s Family Affair Benefit Concert” will take place on Wednesday, January 31 at the Ridglea Theater located at 6025 Camp Bowie Blvd, Fort Worth, Texas, 76116 from 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. The doors will open at 5:00 p.m. and the performances will begin at 6:00 p.m. Tickets range from $25 for general admission to $400 for VIP tables. They can be purchased on Eventbrite by visiting Button’s Family Affair Benefit Concert Tickets, Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite.
The benefit concert is made possible through gracious sponsors that include The Ridglea Room Theatre, Chef Billy Kidd of Taco Casa, Chef Ty Frazier of Our Door to Yours, Fat Face Full, Angie’s Louisiana Kitchen and Catering, The Rim Restaurant Waterside and MJ’s Apparel.
For those who cannot attend the concert, donations can be made on the GoFundMe page set up for Chef Keith “Buttons” Hicks by visiting Fundraiser by Keith Hicks : Keith Button Hicks (gofundme.com).
