Blake Sings For Tornado Funds

Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert performed their award-winning song “Over You” Tuesday night on The Voice.  The purpose was to raise money for victims of Monday’s devastating tornados in Oklahoma.   Blake was born and raised in that state, and he’s seen tornadoes before.  But the scope of the damage shocked him.  Earlier in the day, Blake spoke with Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton about Monday’s tornadoes: “That size of a tornado is rare anyway, much less to go through the heart of that kind of an area that’s that populated.  But every bad thing you could throw into the equation, it all came together, it’s unimaginable, and there were tornadoes everywhere that day, I’m sure there are a lot of stories we haven’t heard yet that hit small communities or maybe rural areas, but it was just a terrible, terrible day in Oklahoma overall.”

You can hear more of Lon’s interview with Blake as they co-host Country Countdown USA the weekend of June 1-2.

OKLAHOMA CITY – May 24, 2013 – Blake Shelton has organized and will headline the telethon “Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert” on May 29, to take place at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.

Grammy Award-winning artists Miranda Lambert, Reba and Vince Gill will also perform. Additional guests for the concert will be announced shortly.

The concert will be televised live at 9 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. It will also air on cable networks Style, G4, Bravo, E! and CMT on either a live or delayed basis.

“Everyone has their way to help, and mine as an entertainer is to perform to help raise money and awareness for this tragedy,” Shelton said. “This is why I want to do this special and especially hold it in Oklahoma City, which is near ground zero.”

The event will raise funds for the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund. Working with their local community partners, United Way of Central Oklahoma will use the Fund for immediate, intermediate and long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts in Oklahoma following the tornadoes that devastated Moore earlier this week.

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