Join us for a night of Southern Gospel and Bluegrass Gospel Music! Joseph Habedank and the Backline guys are donating their time and talents to benefit Dacey Tessigner. Donations are requested to enter and all money raised will be used to help pay for medical expenses.
Doors open at 6pm and the show starts at 7pm!
The show will be held in the gym at Broome High School! ​
We're hosting a fundraiser for Dacey Tessigner. She is an 19 year old girl that has been diagnosed with Acute Lymphotic Leukemia. Her grandfather is Pastor Bill Pickel of Calvary Hill Baptist Church in Pacolet, SC. This is the church where Travis (dobro) and Jason (bass) attend. Travis is the piano player and Jason plays the bass. She is also a huge Backline fan! She appeared in both of our music videos. She recently returned from MUSC after her bone marrow transplant. Please keep her in your prayers.

Here's Dacey and her group at church singing "Big Enough" one week before her diagnosis.

November 2018: Dacey is Diagnosed with Leukemia and admitted to Greenville Children's Hospital for Chemotherapy

December 2018: Dacey's family and friends shave their heads so she doesn't have to be alone. 

February 2019: Dacey is admitted into the hospital for her second round of methotrexate and she has a bad reaction. she is in the hospital for more than 30 days.

Update 4/1/2019:
Dacey has been in the hospital for almost a month with this round of chemo. Her white counts plummeted and things didn't look good for about 2 weeks. She was quarantined and wasn't allowed to have visitors. Her counts finally started coming back up and she has begun feeling better. Katelyn, Travis and Kandi (our manager) went to see her in the hospital and visited with her and her family for several hours. Katelyn sang several songs that Dacey requested, and then Dacey and her group even sang a couple of songs. It was a good day. 

 Here's Dacey and her group singing "Big Enough" in her hospital room after 28 days in the hospital with Katelyn playing the Guitar

Joseph Habedank saw the video of Dacey and the girls singing big enough from her hospital bed and volunteers to do a benefit concert when he's in the area. 

About Joseph Habedank:
Daywind recording artist Joseph Habedank is a GRAMMY® nominated, Dove Award winning singer/songwriter and Singing News Magazine's Soloist of the Year (2018, 2017). Joseph has a unique and equally powerful testimony that has been featured on FoxNews.com's Spirited Debate, TBN’s Praise the Lord, and in such publications as Billboard Magazine, CCM Magazine, and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze. For ten years, he served first as baritone, then as the lead singer for one of Southern Gospel's favorite family groups, the Perrys, and shared his songs in some of America's greatest churches and venues, including the Brooklyn Tabernacle, Charles Stanley’s First Baptist Atlanta, The Grand Ole Opry, and the historic Ryman Auditorium. On the heels of his critically-acclaimed debut solo release, Welcome Home, he was awarded Singing News Magazine’s New Soloist of the Year in 2014. Additionally, he was awarded Young Artist of the Year in 2009 by the fans of Gospel Music and Songwriter of the Year at the Absolutely Gospel Music Awards in 2011. His songs have been recorded by such artists as: Reba McEntire (“Sing It Now”), The Booth Brothers, Brian Free & Assurance, Karen Peck & New River, The Hoppers, Ivan Parker, Jeff & Sheri Easter, and many more. He has helped write two nationally charted #1 songs and in 2010, "If You Knew Him" (written with Rodney Griffin) was nominated for Southern Gospel Song of the Year at the GMA Dove Awards and won the Singing News Fan Award for Song of the Year. He was also nominated for Singing News Magazine's Male Vocalist of the Year, Lead Singer of the Year and Songwriter of the Year for three consecutive years. Welcome Home featured two Top 5 singles (“Never No Never” and “Beauty of the Blood”), as well as two Top 10 singles (“Big Enough” and “Welcome Home”). Joseph currently resides just outside Nashville, TN with his wife, Lindsay.​

Update 4/5/2019:
Dacey got to go home yesterday! Keep her in y'alls prayers. She'll have to go back next week to begin her antibody drip. Each child gets to paint a ceiling tile before they leave the hospital. Dacey decided to "Punch Cancer In the Face"

Update 4/19/2019:

Dacey got a good report from the doctors! The cancer in her bone marrow is currently at 0.03%! She is in the middle of the antibody drip and when she finishes that she will be on her way to Charleston for the bone marrow transplant. Milom, Zach and Travis went to see her and she is in good spirits! Please keep her in your prayers. She has a long road ahead.

UPDATE 4/29/2019:

Dacey is in the middle of her antibody drip. She goes to the clinic every other day to have it checked and refilled. So far she isn't having any side effects and is feeling good. Praise the Lord. 

 Update 5/5/2019
Dacey got an autographed football from Dabo Swinney! while she is doing the antibody drip, she is able to go to church!

Update 7/15/2019
​Dacey went to a camp for Cancer survivors. Her hair is growing back because she isn't doing chemo. 

Update 8/5/2019

Dacey is ready for transplant! The family is moving to Charleston

Update 9/27/2019:
Dacey came through the bone marrow transplant successfully! ​

10/26/2019
Dacey got to go outside for the first time post transplant!

update 11/4/2019
Dacey got to leave the hospital and go back to their apartment in Charleston

update 1/7/2020
The family got to come back home to spartanburg!!
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Update 2/16/2020:
Dacey is currently 100% donor! She is under quarantine due to immuno suppressant drugs that she's taking to help her transplant take. ​
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