Got Tim, Got Faith, Got Hope

My mom just told me that Country music couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill played a benefit concert in New Orleans after criticizing the government’s slow response to Katrina. Their charity Neighbor’s Keeper, donates money to qualifying charities helping with Katrina recovery. Here’s a quote from the story in the Times-Picaune:

Both McGraw and Hill, who is from Star, Miss., have criticized the government’s slow response to Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 1,800 people along the Gulf Coast and flooded 80 percent of New Orleans. In interviews, Hill described the post-Katrina progress as “embarrassing” and “humiliating” to the country.

“It’s wrong,” she said. “It really gets us fired up. That’s our homeland.”

Before they show, the two toured the destroyed Lower Ninth and St. Bernard Parish. They opened the show by saying “It’s good to be home.’ McGraw is from Louisiana and Hill is from Mississippi.