The Rebuild West Virgina telethon for flood relief will air nationally on television and radio stations across the USA and stream online tonight, July 1st from 7pm-9pm Eastern time. Proceeds will go directly to Red Cross relief efforts across all affected areas of West Virginia, which was devastated by historic flooding June 23rd and 24th.
The telethon will air statewide across West Virginia, including all areas directly affected by the flooding, with the assistance of the West Virginia Broadcasters Association. The Friday telethon will be followed by a free live concert event Sunday in Charleston headlined by West Virginia resident and America’s Got Talent winner Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., who is donating all the profits in the month of July from his new song “Come Home To West Virginia” to flood relief efforts.
Rebuild West Virginia telethon viewers will be encouraged to make donations directly to flood relief efforts at www.rebuildwestvirginia.com
A partial and growing list of celebrities from movies, television, sports and entertainment who are appearing on the Rebuild West Virginia telethon either live or via recorded message include:
- Telethon co-host Billy Ray Cyrus, country superstar who spent many years leading the “house band” at Huntington’s Ragtime Lounge. Cyrus currently stars in the new CMT series “Still The King.”
- Telethon co-host and Princeton WV native Kevin Sizemore (Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462, NCIS, Resurrection, Under The Dome, Rizzoli & Isles)
- Actress and Charleston native Jennifer Garner (13 Going on 30, Daredevil, Pearl Harbor, Catch Me If You Can, Draft Day, Dallas Buyers Club)
- Leonard Coleman and Blunt, the former lead singers of legendary groups the Temptations, Platters, and Drifters
- Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., whose new song “Come Home To West Virginia” has been in the Top 10 on the iTunes Jazz music chart this week
- Country superstar Brad Paisley, who spent Thursday touring the state and meeting with residents affected by the flooding
- Beckley WV resident Cody Wickline from Season Eight of “The Voice” who has spent several days in the past week as a flood relief volunteer
- Mike Estes, formerly of Lynyrd Skynyrd and now leader of Southern rock supergroup Skinny Molly
- “Rocket Boys” New York Times #1 best-selling author and Coalwood WV native Homer Hickam
- Kenova WV native and contemporary Christian artist Michael W. Smith
- Princeton WV resident Dreama “Mrs. Gilligan” Denver, wife of late Gilligan’s Island star Bob Denver
- Legendary “Hollywood Squares” host Peter Marshall, who grew up in Wheeling and Huntington
- Charleston WV band The Carpenter Ants, led by West Virginia Music Hall of Fame director Michael Lipton
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member and Slab Fork WV native Bill Withers (Lean On Me, Lovely Day, Use Me, Just The Two Of Us)
- Actor Chad Lindberg (The Fast and the Furious, October Sky)
- Lewisburg WV resident and former NBA great Bimbo Coles
- Major league pitching sensation, ESPN personality and Charleston WV native John Kruk
- John Fogerty pianist/solo artist Bob Malone, who has composed an original song for flood relief called “The River Gives”
- Charleston WV native and character actor Bobby Ray Shafer (The Office)
- David DeLuise (The Wizards of Waverly Place)
- Jazz vocalist and actress Renee Olstead (Still Standing, The Secret Life of the American Teenager)
- Mountain Stage national radio host Larry Groce
- Actress Markie Post (Night Court, The Fall Guy)
- Actress and Wheeling WV native Joyce DeWitt (Janet from “Three’s Company”)