Jealous Haters Since 1998!
Home | News | Reviews | Day In Rock | Photos | RockNewsWire | Singled Out | Tour Dates/Tix | Feeds

Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, and Darius Rucker For MDA Labor Day Telethon

06/09/2011
.
Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, and Darius Rucker performances will be broadcast during the prime-time MDA Labor Day Telethon on Sept. 4.

The special performances were taped during their Grand Ole Opry live performances on Tuesday.

In addition to performing, hit-makers Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, and Darius Rucker chatted with MDA National Goodwill Ambassador Abbey Umali, the 12-year-old dynamo so instrumental in reminding business and civic leaders why it's important to help MDA speed research seeking treatments and cures for progressive muscle diseases affecting more than a million Americans.

"We're pleased that country music's most famous stage was able to help create truly memorable segments for the MDA Labor Day Telethon," said Opry Vice President and General Manager Pete Fisher. "Lady Antebellum, Martina and Darius transformed their Opry performances into must-watch television to help advance MDA's lifesaving mission."

"It's been an unbelievable year for us," said Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum, the country group that recently won five Grammy Awards for its hit song, Need You Now. "Charles, Dave and I always have a great time performing at the Opry, and this one was extra special since it will be included in the MDA Telethon on Labor Day. It warms our hearts to be part of the nearly 50-year tradition that means the world to families living with muscular dystrophy."

Superstar Martina McBride, who in 2004 helped fulfill a wish for a young girl with muscular dystrophy and has previously made MDA Telethon appeals, said, "I encourage everyone to tune in to the Telethon and support the Muscular Dystrophy Association. MDA sends thousands of kids with muscular dystrophy to magical week-long summer camps each year, funds worldwide research and maintains nearly 200 clinics to help families across the U.S. It's important we continue to help MDA help so many others."

Having made a special connection with Darius Rucker during the March Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, MDA's Abbey Umali beamed when Rucker asked her to join him yesterday in singing his 2010 Billboard No. 1 single Come Back Song. "Abbey rocked the house on Come Back Song," said Rucker. "I'll long remember this duet, and I hope it will be particularly powerful for the tens of millions watching the MDA Telethon at home."

The iconic stars also taped special Telethon tune-in messages and appeals that throughout August and early September will be running frequently on more than 150 television stations comprising the MDA "Love Network," as well as on hundreds of radio stations nationwide.

Preview and Purchase Lady Antebellum CDs

Lady Antebellum Tour Dates/Tickets

Lady Antebellum T-shirts and Posters

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

antiMUSIC News featured on RockNews.info and Yahoo News

.


...end


.
News Reports
.
Day in Rock:
Lamb Of God's Mark Morton Streams Chester Bennington Collaboration- Rush Members To Make Special Appearance- Unreleased David Bowie Tracks In New Collection- more

Day in Pop

B-Sides: Taylor Swift Reveals Her Mother Has Cancer- Rich Homie Quan Surrenders To Police Over Alleged Nightclub Assault- Justin Bieber Duets With Ariana Grande- Mumford & Sons- more

 Subscribe To Day in Rock

.
 
Reviews
.

Ladies Only: Jennie Abrahamson- Rachel Garlin- Nneka- More

Album of the Week: Led Zeppelin's When The West Was Won

Karyn Crisis' Gospel Of The Witches - Salem's Wounds

The Blues: John Mayall's Bluesbreakers- Arlen Roth, Mike Henderson Band- Slam Allen

Trauma Interview

December in Red - The Way Out

Battleaxe - Power From the Universe Reissue

SOKO Interview

The Compulsions - Dirty Fun

Rock Reads: Morbid Tales! A Tribute to Celtic Frost

Death Penalty - Death Penalty

On The Record: The Wild Beyond

RockPile: Minutian- Odin's Court- THEO

Michael Ubaldini Interview

Root 66: Cameron Mitchell- Stacy Jones- Greg Shirley


. .
.
Today's Rock News
. Lamb Of God's Mark Morton Streams Chester Bennington Collaboration

Rush Members To Make Special Appearance

Unreleased David Bowie Tracks In New Collection

Def Leppard Announce Summer Tour Dates

Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows Guests On John Dolmayan Album

Aerosmith To Rock Steven Tyler's Grammy Awards Viewing Party

Tedeschi Trucks Band Streaming New Song 'Hard Case'

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Biopic Nominated For Seven BAFTA Awards

Behemoth Release Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica Video

Blues Music Awards Nominees Announced


Subscribe to Day in Rock Report by Email

.
.
Today's Pop News
.
.
.
Latest B-Sides News
.

More News
.
 
anti Worthy Links
.
AudioNationRadio.comThe Screen DoorA Journal of Musical ThingsLloyd Zeffler blogDemolish MagNightwatcher's House of RockCJ ChilversDeja VoodooThe 1st Fivethecopycat.bizHard Rock Memorabilia Day in Rock @twitter

.
  .
.

Click Here to Buy T-Shirts!
Click Here to Buy T-Shirts!

 

Tell a Friend about this page - Contact Us - Privacy - antiMusic Email - Why we are antiMusic

Copyright© 1998 - 2013 Iconoclast Entertainment Group All rights reserved. antiMusic works on a free link policy for reprinting of our original articles, click here for details. Please click here for legal restrictions and terms of use applicable to this site. Use of this site signifies your agreement to the terms of use.