OK Benefit Concert Sells Out In 30-Seconds

Shelton, Lambert (Billboard photo)

Things are coming together for the benefit concert that Oklahoma native Blake Shelton announced on Tuesday’s episode of The Voice.

The concert titled Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert, will benefit the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund. NBC is set to air a live broadcast of the concert at 9 p.m. ET/PT; it also will air cable networks Style, G4, Bravo, E! and CMT on either a live or delayed basis.

The tornado killed at least 24 people, injured hundreds, and damaged houses, hospitals, and schools in Moore, Okla. and Oklahoma City.

Shelton, a judge on NBC’s The Voice, will perform in the concert along with wife and fellow country artist Miranda Lambert. Usher and Darius Rucker join a lineup that also includes Luke Bryan, Rascal Flatts, Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic, Reba McEntire and Vince Gill.  Others are expected to be added to the line-up.

 “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 in a statement. “This is why I want to do this special and especially hold it in Oklahoma City, which is near ground zero.”

Tickets for next week’s concert went on sale Saturday, May 25 and quickly sold out.

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