Concert benefits Five Valleys Crimestoppers

Musician B.J. Thomas will perform a benefit concert for Five Valleys Crimestoppers at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, at the University of Montana’s Dennison Theatre.

            Tickets are on sale now and are available by calling 406-721-1373. After an initial phone solicitation, tickets will be on sale at Rockin’ Rudy’s in Missoula starting Monday, July 6. Tickets cost $36 plus applicable fees.

            Thomas is a pop singer best known for his 1960s hits “Hooked on a Feeling” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.” “Raindrops,” featured in the 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart that same year. The song also won an Academy Award for Best Original Song. More than a decade later, Thomas scored another hit, “As Long As We Got Each Other,” the theme song for the popular 1980s sitcom “Growing Pains.”

Singer-songwriter Thom Bresh will open for Thomas.

            The concert is a fundraiser for Five Valleys Crimestoppers, which operates year-round, toll-free phone lines for citizens to anonymously report tips on criminal activity. Money raised through the concert will fund rewards for tips used to solve crimes. 

            For more information call Mike Velasquez with Five Valley Crimestoppers at 406-721-1373 or email fivevalleyscrimestoppers@hotmail.com.