Now that the Grammys are behind them, Lady Antebellum and Taylor Swift can look forward to the next big awards show.

Nooooo, not the Oscars.  And noooooo not the Academy of Country Music Awards. It’s the Kids’ Choice Awards!   Taylor Swift is up for two Kids’ Choice Awards: female singer and favorite song, “Mine.” And Lady Antebellum are nominated for favorite music group, up against Big Time Rush, the Black Eyed Peas and the Jonas Brothers.

Jack Black will host. The Kids’ Choice Awards are Saturday, April 2 on the campus of the University of Southern California. They’ll air live on Nickelodeon.

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This year, for the seventh annual Thanks and Giving campaign, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has launched new technologies like text-to-donate, virtual gifts and mobile applications to connect with the public digitally. During the holiday season, celebrity friends including the Jonas Brothers, Lady Antebellum, Katharine McPhee and Daisy Fuentes, also will raise awareness and drive fundraising efforts through their social media channels and other digital assets.

New this year, St. Jude developed mobile-ready websites in both English (www.tg.stjude.org) and Spanish (www.dargracias.org) for users with iPhones, Blackberries or iPads. These sites can also be accessed from a desktop or a laptop. Additionally, St. Jude created a text-to-donate option for Thanks and Giving. To make a one-time $10 donation to the Thanks and Giving campaign, consumers simply send a text message with the word HOPE in the body of the message to the telephone number 90999.

St. Jude also developed a new Facebook application that allows users to send a virtual gift to friends when they make a minimum donation of $5. Virtual gifts include patient art, St. Jude’s “ABC’s of Cancer,” celebrity images with St. Jude patients, hospital campus shots and more. After a user makes a donation on any of the St. Jude websites, they can share a message with friends on family on Facebook detailing their support of Thanks and Giving. Go to tg.stjude.org/getinvolved/virutalgifts to utilize this application.

This holiday season, St. Jude has increased the star power to support the Thanks and Giving campaign online. Celebrities including the Jonas Brothers, Lady Antebellum, Daisy Fuentes, Katharine McPhee, Julianne Hough, Jewel, Danny Gokey, Noel Scharjris, Danna Garcia and Martiza Rodriguez have donated their time and committed to highlighting the Thanks and Giving campaign on their personal social network sites with messaging, photos and videos of themselves with patients and at the Hospital.

Go to www.facebook.com/stjude to follow these celebrity friends.

Katharine McPhee, Julianne Hough, Danny Gokey, Jewel and Jo Dee Messina have all agreed to host peer-to-peer fundraising pages through the My Energy for St. Jude component of the online Thanks and Giving campaign. This component allows friends and family to support each celebrity’s team effort to raise money for St. Jude.

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Faith Hill and Emmylou Harris are part of an all-star lineup tonight honoring Paul McCartney. The White House is hosting the event where Paul will receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

 Others taking part in tonight’s tribute concert are Stevie Wonder, the Jonas Brothers, Jack White of the White Stripes, Foo Fighters lead Dave Grohl and others. The concert is being taped and will air July 28 nationwide on PBS.

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The only reason I’m posting this is because it’s absolutely cringe-worthy…I can’t even believe how absolutely….um…appalled I am that the Jonas Brothers had the nerve to even attempt to cover Keith Urban’s “Somebody Like You.”  I’m also not thrilled with the false southern accents they suddenly acquired.

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Just like 25 years ago, when musicians came together for the original “We Are the World,” country stars are in the mix this time, too.

Here are the singers with country ties who took part in the new recording last night: Miley Cyrus, Sugarland, Zac Brown, Julianne Hough and Jeff Bridges. Jeff Bridges has been singing country because of the movie, “Crazy Heart.” They joined dozens of others like Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Natalie Cole, the Jonas Brothers, Kanye West, Tony Bennett and Jennifer Hudson.

The original included Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kenny Rogers, which was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. That first recording raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa. Money raised from this new recording is to help the people of Haiti.

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This is a picture from last year, but I just now found it. Darius Rucker and the Jonas Brothers posed for a picture while on Jimmy Kimmel Live.  This photo was found on www.DariusRucker.com.  For some reason, I find this very comical.

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The Franklin, TN organization, Porter’s Call, has joined forces with ClothesOffOurBack.org for a celebrity charity auction to raise money for a great cause.

Porter’s Call was founded 9 years ago.  It gives aid and counsel to recording artists and their families as they embark on a very difficult journey.   The historic Franklin home provides a confidential place for broken lives to be healed through God while enhancing talent and creativity.

“We are so grateful for the overwhelming show of support we’ve received from the participating artists-many of whom we’ve never met,” said Porter’s Call founder Al Andrews. “This auction collection holds a diverse and unique array of items that is sure to excite and delight their fans. While we know these items will raise significant funds to further the work of Porter’s Call, we hope that awareness for the service we provide is already rising significantly within the music community and that we will be able to serve more artists in the months to come.”

Items up for auction include:

• Autographed Guitars from Tim McGraw, Brooks & Dunn, Gene Simmons, Steven Curtis Chapman, Mercy Me, and Paramore
• Autographed wardrobe items from Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Keith Urban, Big Kenny, Michael W. Smith and tobyMac
• Concert and meet & greet packages from Casting Crowns, Diamond Rio and Mandisa
• Titans and Predators tickets with special passes
• Framed autographed handwritten lyrics from Vince Gill and Amy Grant
• Autographed books from Mike Huckabee, Steve Harvey and Rick & Bubba
• Other autographed items from Jonas Brothers, Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Billy Bob Thornton, Alison Krauss, Gretchen Wilson, Sara Evans and Josh Turner

Click here for more information and to start bidding-on items for this great cause.

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