Lang Langford likes to create benefit shows for one main reason — it makes him happy.

“I do it because I don’t want to make money for myself, I want to make money for someone else, it just makes me feel better to do it that way,” said Langford.

With that belief in mind, Langford is presenting his third show benefitting the Lopez Island Family Resource Center and the Children’s Center. The show, called “Warmth In The Depth Of Winter” will be at the Lopez Center, Saturday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m.

At last year’s performance, Langford and several of his fellow music makers raised about $2,000 for the Lopez Island Family Resource Center and the Children’s House.

Langford said he wanted to do a benefit for LIFR  and the Children’s House because of the importance of young people in society.

“I see that having children in the world is humanity’s greatest sign of hope. I’ve always believed that,” said Langford. “I love organizations that foster that hope for kids and families through education and food … things that keep families together.”

For the last three months, Langford has been busy pulling everything together including a great line-up of performers joining him for the concert.

His long-time friend Byl Leonard will perform a few solo numbers and Byl’s brother James Leonard is coming to work the sound and make a recording of the performance. Other musicians will be Geoff Heard, Todd Goldsmith, Colin Doherty, Bill Johnson, Sand Dalton, Becky Johnson, Nick and Susie Teague, Libby Valluzzi, JC Marean, Helen Sanders, and Dave Rucker will be working the lights.

“There will be totally different music from last year,” said Langford. “The music ranges from folk country to spiritual to rock to jazz to ballads. There will be all sorts of different music, it will be like letting a Beatles record spin, every song will be a different one than you heard before.”

Langford will also perform several songs he has written.

He said he likes to have variety in his shows because  “a song is similar to a snapshot of life.”

“If you can write a song that captures an emotion that makes it timeless,” he said. “Music can make us feel we are not so alone, that we are all sharing the same emotion through a song. If I have written or peformed something that makes people laugh or cry, I have succeeded.”

CD’s will be available for sale to help with the cost of airfare for musicians in the show traveling from Hawaii.

Tickets at door: adult $15, youth $10.