Country music star Blake Shelton, a native Oklahoman, will lead a benefit concert for tornado victims on May 29.
Other performers partaking in the benefit concert included Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Kanye West and The Who.
Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi are to perform at a benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy on Friday.
Jack Fate (Dylan) is a washed-up rock star who gets roped into a benefit concert by the unscrupulous promoter Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman).
Hosts of the birthday bash, King's old friends William and Mary Haskell, are also organizing "Mississippi Rising" a benefit concert to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina.
After helping organise the benefit concert to raise money for the Boxing Day tsunami and receiving a CBE from the Queen, it is arguably Clapton's time for reappraisal.
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Marsalis' brother Wynton organized a benefit concert in New York.
Charities involved in helping displaced residents are expected to see a boost in giving Wednesday night from "Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert" at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in downtown Oklahoma City.
In other words, a benefit concert gives the celebrities the feeling that they are using their particular skills to do something good, and it makes donors feel good because they become a part of a bigger pool of giving.
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Charity organizers say monetary donations are far more flexible and useful, and many organizations are expected to see an infusion of cash donations after a benefit concert Wednesday night in Oklahoma City featuring country music stars with Oklahoma ties, including Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Vince Gill and Reba McEntire.
June 14 2012: President Obama and the First Lady attended a private concert benefit featuring Mariah Carey.
Although ARA has certainly spent much of its time on high-profile cases referred by prosecutors, police and customs, it has also worked to tackle street-level criminals - from drug dealers and gang members to sellers of counterfeit goods and benefit cheats, in concert with local authorities.
And there is help from across the Atlantic in the form of Paul McCartney, who is holding a concert in October to benefit post-attack relief efforts.
Cisco, KPMG, RealNetworks and Akamai have come together to build a distributed network for broadcasting and supporting the Oct. 9 NetAid concert, which will benefit the United Nations Development Programme.
The evening was part all-star concert, part fundraiser to benefit the MusiCares Foundation, the Recording Academy's philanthropic arm that provides assistance to members of the music industry.
But once the concert started and the camera phones got pulled out of thousands of pants pockets, I saw the benefit of being phoneless.
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