Carrie Underwood Visits St. Jude Kids

Carrie Underwood visited St. Jude patients, including Jordyn (age 8), during the annual Country Cares for St. Jude Kids® seminar in Memphis, TN on January 15, 2010.

The hospital visit was part of the annual Country Cares for St. Jude Kids radio seminar. More than 650 members of the country music industry gathered in Memphis this week to kick off a new season of fundraising on behalf of St. Jude. Forty of country music’s hottest stars joined Country Music Hall-of-Famer Randy Owen to bring bright smiles and warm words to the patients of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

“We’re so caught up in what’s going on today and with the economy,” said Owen. “And you wonder if people are still going to care. So yeah, every year I’m concerned that a dream that we all have, that we all share together, could get pushed aside, and [the mission of St. Jude will] be less important [to listeners] than it should be.”

Joining Owen were country artists Carrie Underwood, Jewel, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steve Azar, Danny Gokey, Little Big Town, Darryl Worley, Joe Nichols and many others. Also touring the hospital were representatives from country radio stations around the country and a number of country music labels.

“When you walk in the door of St. Jude, it is happy,” said Underwood. “There are pictures on the wall—kid-created pictures—and it is not like a hospital. It is not a cold environment.”