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Blake Shelton organized and will headline the telethon "Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert" on May 29 at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Okla. To help those affected by this week's tornado that devastated Moore, Okla. Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire and Vince Gill will also perform. Additional guests for the concert will be announced shortly. At least one Twitter post indicated the inclusion of Garth Brooks and Toby Keith....

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Filed under: Country News Carrie Underwood opened her purse and made a huge donation to the American Red Cross to aid victims of Monday's deadly tornado in Moore, Okla. The Checotah, Okla. native donated $1 million to aid relief efforts, saying the devastation saddened her. "With the help of my fans who attended my concerts over the past year, we can offer the Red Cross a little extra help in comforting those affected by the recent tornados," Underwood said in a statement at her website. Checotah is 120 miles east of Moore.

Filed under: Country News Kellie Pickler was named 'Dancing With the Stars' champion on Tuesday (May 21), with many saying she bagged the win with an emotional freestyle routine on Monday. After that show, when the audience had left and Pickler was relaxing on the dance floor, husband Kyle Jacobs surprised her with a new puppy. "We were sitting out there on the dance floor after everything was over," she tells Xfinity, "and [Kyle] comes over and he's carrying this little bag and he opens it and there's this little Maltese in there and I was like, 'What's this?' And he's like, 'It's for you.' I was like 'Awww!'"

Filed under: Country News Darius Rucker says he knew that the person behind the racist tweet sent to him earlier this week was baiting him, but he couldn't resist exposing them. Racism is something the singer says he's dealt with since his Hootie and the Blowfish days, and usually he just brushes it off. But this person took his vitriol to a new level. "I read a couple of his tweets and was like, 'This guy's a real racist; he ain't kidding,'" Rucker told USA Today. "I was like, 'I have to expose this idiot.'"

Filed under: Country News Nine days after the deadly tornado that touched down in Moore, Okla., Blake Shelton and friends will be staging a relief concert that will air on NBC. Details of the 'Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert' were announced Friday afternoon. The event will serve as a telethon, with proceeds going to the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund. The concert will take place May 29 at 9PM ET, airing on 'The Voice' coach's home network, as well as on E!, Style, G4, Bravo and CMT. Shelton will headline, and fellow Oklahomans Vince Gill and Reba McEntire will join him and Miranda Lambert as performers. Additional guests will be announced soon.

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New man: Leon Cave Status Quo have named Leon Cave as their new drummer after Matt Letley bowed out following a 13-year stint. Multi-intrumentalist Cave has been a member of Francis Rossi’s solo band and an in-demand session drummer, guitarist and bassist. He’ll make his live debut with the band in Germany tonight. Quo say in a statement: “Leon has been in rehearsal with the band and will be playing at the Wolkenkratzer Festival in Frankfurt, Germany.” Cave is described as “a fast learner of new material with the ability to play across all genres of music.” Last year Letley announced his decision to move on. He was scheduled to make his final appearance at the O2 Arena in London on December 19, then stayed on to cover the band’s Australian tour in February this year. He said: “It’s been a fantastic journey – but I have decided that now is the right time for me to leave Quo and move on to something new.” But he denied the move was anything to do with the band’s Frantic Four reunion shows, played by Rossi and Rick Parfitt alongside founding members Alan Lancaster and John Coghlan. The last of those concerts, in London March 17, was filmed for a later DVD release. The veterans released their feature film Bula Quo! in July and tour the UK in December with 10cc: Dec 6: Liverpool Echo Arena Dec 7: Birmingham LG Arena Dec 8: Cardiff Motorpoint Arena Dec 10: Plymouth Pavilions Dec 11: Bournemouth BIC Dec 13: Brighton Centre Dec 14: Nottingham Arena Dec 15: London O2 Dec 17: Leeds Arena Dec 18: Glasgow Hydro Dec 19: Newcastle Metro Arena

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