Stars step up to help hurricane victims
Faith Hill and Aaron Neville were added to last night's ''A Concert for Hurricane Relief," staged in New York. NBC's one-hour telethon was also expected to feature Hill's husband, Tim McGraw, along with Harry Connick Jr. and Wynton Marsalis, among others.
Meanwhile, music channel Great American Country has announced plans for a benefit event on Sept. 27. Working with the Grand Ole Opry, GAC has enlisted Alan Jackson, Alison Krauss, Keith Urban, Marty Stuart, Craig Morgan, Julie Roberts, and Billy Currington for ''Country Reaches Out: An Opry Benefit for the American Red Cross." The show will be broadcast live and commercial-free from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House on GAC.
Meanwhile, comedian Jerry Lewis announced that $1 million from his annual Labor Day telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association would be given to provide relief to hurricane victims and that the telethon would accept pledges for hurricane relief.
The hurricane hit close to home for many celebrities. Patricia Clarkson's mother, Jackie, is a New Orleans councilwoman who stayed at the side of Mayor Ray Nagin while Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city. ''She's all right, otherwise I wouldn't be here," Clarkson told the media at the Venice Film Festival.
Soul Asylum frontman Dave Pirner is anxiously watching television, hoping to see if his house in New Orleans escaped the destruction of the hurricane.
Among those who were working in Louisiana and fled as the storm approached were Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton, who were in New Orleans for the production of ''The Last Time." Chef Emeril Lagasse, who lives in New Orleans and has three restaurants there, made it through the hurricane safely, the Food Network reported yesterday. And Hillary Swank was working on Joel Silver's new thriller but fled to Austin, Texas.
''American Idol" auditions scheduled for Monday in Memphis were canceled after city officials determined that the auditions would hamper the city's efforts to aid the tens of thousands of refugees from the hurricane, the Fox TV show announced in a press release.
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Faith Hill and Aaron Neville were added to last night's ''A Concert for Hurricane Relief," staged in New York. NBC's one-hour telethon was also expected to feature Hill's husband, Tim McGraw, along with Harry Connick Jr. and Wynton Marsalis, among others.
Meanwhile, music channel Great American Country has announced plans for a benefit event on Sept. 27. Working with the Grand Ole Opry, GAC has enlisted Alan Jackson, Alison Krauss, Keith Urban, Marty Stuart, Craig Morgan, Julie Roberts, and Billy Currington for ''Country Reaches Out: An Opry Benefit for the American Red Cross." The show will be broadcast live and commercial-free from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House on GAC.
Meanwhile, comedian Jerry Lewis announced that $1 million from his annual Labor Day telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association would be given to provide relief to hurricane victims and that the telethon would accept pledges for hurricane relief.
The hurricane hit close to home for many celebrities. Patricia Clarkson's mother, Jackie, is a New Orleans councilwoman who stayed at the side of Mayor Ray Nagin while Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city. ''She's all right, otherwise I wouldn't be here," Clarkson told the media at the Venice Film Festival.
Soul Asylum frontman Dave Pirner is anxiously watching television, hoping to see if his house in New Orleans escaped the destruction of the hurricane.
Among those who were working in Louisiana and fled as the storm approached were Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton, who were in New Orleans for the production of ''The Last Time." Chef Emeril Lagasse, who lives in New Orleans and has three restaurants there, made it through the hurricane safely, the Food Network reported yesterday. And Hillary Swank was working on Joel Silver's new thriller but fled to Austin, Texas.
''American Idol" auditions scheduled for Monday in Memphis were canceled after city officials determined that the auditions would hamper the city's efforts to aid the tens of thousands of refugees from the hurricane, the Fox TV show announced in a press release.
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