Country Artists Golf for a Cause

Country artists will be golfing for a good cause at the Academy of Country Music Lifting Lives Celebrity Golf Classic on Saturday, April 5, 2014. Held at the TPC Las Vegas, the event will be hosted by Darius Rucker for the third consecutive year. The ACM Lifting Lives Celebrity Golf Classic - the eighth held since 2004 - brings together country music artists Charles Kelley, Cole Swindell, Frankie Ballard, Jake Owen and Scotty McCreery as well as other members of the music community in a star-studded tournament to raise funds and awareness for ACM Lifting Lives’ Diane Holcomb Emergency Relief Fund.

This fund allows ACM Lifting Lives to respond quickly to unanticipated financial needs of people as well as music related organizations. It covers a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. Funding is disbursed at the discretion of a committee made up of ACM Lifting Lives Board Members. The fund was established to honor Diane Holcomb's memory by her only daughter, Gayle Holcomb, who served four years as Chairman of the Board of the Academy of Country Music. ACM Lifting Lives has helped 45 people and given over $230,000 through this fund since its inception in 2007.

The ACM Lifting Lives Celebrity Golf Classic, 2nd Annual ACM Party for a Cause Festival, will be one of several events taking place in conjunction with “The Week Vegas Goes Country,” leading up to the 49th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards, a star-studded event produced for television by dick clark productions, that will be broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Sunday, April 6, 2014 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS Television Network.

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