Nashville's Music Community Unites for Tsunami Relief on Wednesday, January 26th

NASHVILLE, TN. (Curbe Event Center announcement) - 'An Evening for Restoration: Music City Comes Together for Tsunami Relief' will be held at 7 p.m., Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at the Curb Event Center at Belmont University in Nashville. The one-night only benefit concert, which is bringing together a number of Nashville's major music organizations as well as artists from a variety of genres, will benefit World Vision, the international relief agency which has thousands of staff members on the ground working in the stricken South Asian region where more than 160,000 people have died.

Co-hosted by Michael W. Smith and Kathy Mattea, 'An Evening for Restoration: Music City Comes Together for Tsunami Relief,' takes place on the one-month anniversary of the natural disaster. Each performance is being tailored to reflect the evening's purpose – restoration and hope for the 12 countries affected by the tsunami.
Confirmed performers include: Steven Curtis Chapman, Diamond Rio, CeCe Winans, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Steve Cropper, the Oak Ridge Boys, Kirk Whalum, tobyMac, Crystal Gayle, MercyMe, Lee Greenwood, The Whites, Raul Malo, The Crabb Family, Dr. Bobby Jones, Michael Martin Murphey, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra and a contingent of Grand Ole Opry stars. More artists are confirming for the show daily.

Tickets for 'An Evening for Restoration: Music City Comes Together for Tsunami Relief' will go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday, January 19 through the Curb Event Center at Belmont University box office (615-460-8500) and through Ticket Master (615-255-9600).
Tickets will cost $25, with 100 percent of the ticket price going to World Vision. Those attending the concert will have an opportunity to make additional contributions to World Vision that night.