The Concert for Carolina just added a few major artists to the lineup. The event, organized by Luke Combs and Eric Church to raise money for North Carolina after the devastating Hurricane Helene, is adding Keith Urban, Bailey Zimmerman and Sheryl Crow to the lineup. The new additions join Combs, Church, James Taylor and Billy Strings, who were previously announced.
Combs hinted that he was adding a few special guests to the star-studded event, while speaking with Good Morning America.
“We got some good news coming later this week,” Combs teased. “I’m gonna play that close to the chest, and not give all our secrets away. But I promise it’s going to be a once-in-a-lifetime kind of concert, and I’m real excited and proud to be a part of it.”
It was Combs who had the idea for Concert for Carolina, and immediately reached out to Church, since they both are from North Carolina.
“I was obviously at home watching the news the day after everything started coming out about the storm there,” Combs recalled. “This was the first guy I called. I know how much our state means to him and to myself, and I knew that he would be willing to do whatever it took to help out. I had this crazy idea to do a show at Bank of America [Stadium] … I think it’s gonna be a really special night.”
Church, who also donated all of the publishing from his “Darkest Hour” song to his home state, was eager to help raise money for those in need.
“It’s very simply who I am, North Carolina-made,” Church reflects. “I wouldn’t be who I am today if not for the people there and the community there. To see this happen to them, to that community, to those people, is especially devastating. Luke and I are doing everything we can to try to help that out. For me, it’s in the very DNA of what made me, me.”
Urban was just announced as a co-headliner, along with Jelly Roll and Kane Brown, for New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash, which he will also co-host. The five-hour, live event will air on CBS on December 31, from 8:00 to 10:00 PM ET and 10:30 PM to 1:30 AM ET, and stream on Paramount+. The free show will take place at Nashville’s Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park.
All of the proceeds from Concert for Carolina will be split equally between Combs’ charities of choice, which are Samaritan’s Purse, Manna Food Bank and Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC, plus one more organization still to be announced, and Church’s Chief Cares Foundation, to administer to organizations of their choosing in support of relief efforts across the Carolinas and the Southeast.
Tickets for Concert for Carolina will be available beginning on Thursday, October 10, at 10:00 AM ET. More information can be found at ConcertforCarolina.com.