Joe Walsh Takes VetsAid To His Hometown With Vince Gill, Ryan Bingham & The Texas Gentlemen And Guests

Grammy winning Eagles icon Joe Walsh and VetsAid, his national 501(c)3 non-profit veterans organization, announced the lineup for the Ninth Annual VetsAid benefit Nov. 15 at Intrust Bank Arena in Walsh’s hometown, Wichita, Kansas.

“It’s been a long-term goal of mine since we began VetsAid nearly 10 years ago to bring it all home to my native Wichita to serve Kansan veterans and their families,” explains Walsh in a release. “It’s where my parents were both born and are buried, where I was born and where I will always feel a deep connection and sense of heritage and responsibility.”

The show will feature full sets from Vince Gill, Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen along with a super-set from Walsh with Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks and Nathaniel Rateliff and more special guests.

“It is with great pride and gratitude that our traveling circus of love and community will make a stop in Wichita in 2025 and that I can share the experience with my dear friends who also happen to be some of the greatest American musicians I know,” Walsh adds. “My fellow Eagle Vince Gill, the barnstorming Ryan Bingham, the powerhouse Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks – who also shares family roots in Wichita – and the magnificent Nathaniel Rateliff, who will make this year’s show not just a show but a revival.”

Tickets will be priced all-in starting at $50 and will be available to the public on Aug. 8 at 10:00 AM/CT.

VetsAid is focused on curating one-of-a-kind lineups each year in a different American city with a large veteran and military population. VetsAid hosted its inaugural show on Sept. 20, 2017 with a concert at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia, featuring performances by Walsh, Zac Brown Band, Keith Urban and Gary Clark Jr. The benefit traveled to Tacoma, Washington and Houston, Texas, before moving online in 2020 and 2021. VetsAid 2022 was an instant sell-out all-Ohio affair with sets from a newly reunited James Gang, NIN, The Black Keys and The Breeders with special guest Dave Grohl in Columbus, Ohio, followed by San Diego in 2023. The benefit was canceled in 2024.

Every year, all net proceeds from the concert go directly to the veterans’ services charities selected through a vetting process coordinated in tandem with the Combined Arms Institute. To date, VetsAid has disbursed more than $4 million in grants. In 2025, VetsAid plans to disburse grants exclusively to organizations based in Kansas or with operations on the ground in Kansas.

Veterans and their wellbeing have always been important to Walsh. A Gold Star son himself, Walsh’s father was a flight instructor for the first U.S. operational jet powered aircraft, the Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star, and died while stationed and on active duty on Okinawa when Walsh was 20 months old.