Rodney Atkins will headline the entertainment at a May 4 fundraiser for the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville. The event will be held at The Gait House, in Louisville. This just happens to be the day before the 2012 Kentucky Derby, which of course runs at Churchhill Downs in Louisville. [...]

Darius Rucker unofficially kicked-off the 2010 CMA Music Festival on Monday, June 7 with his inaugural “Darius and Friends” St. Jude benefit concert.  The event, which featured performances by Radney Foster, Randy Houser, Jamey Johnson, and Jake Owen, successfully sold-out the Wildhorse Saloon in downtown Nashville, raising $48,720 for St. Jude cancer research. Upon hearing [...]

People in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area probably know that when Carrie Underwood was there in March, she donated $10,000 to the Pittsburgh’s Animal Rescue League. And we know she always takes part in American Idol’s “Idol Gives Back.” In fact, that will be airing on Wednesday, April 21. (Photo at left Carrie with WxBQ radio’s [...]

Carrie Underwood is scheduled to be a guest star on “How I Met Your Mother.” The episode will air in March 2010. On the show, Carrie will play a new character – “an enigmatic pharmaceutical sales rep and love interest for Ted,” who is played by Josh Rador. Does the fact that it says “new [...]

Trace Adkins,”Marry for Money,” is set to hit radio airwaves today (Jan.12). I haven’t heard it yet, but it’s described as hilarious, and has already been the No. 1 streamed country song on plaympe.com, where it also charted at No. 2 of their Top 5 downloads.  PlayMPE.com is the most widely used digital distribution system [...]