Casey James: First Artist Announced for 3rd Annual CountryMusicIsLove Concert Benefiting City of Hope

We had some fun with Casey James, Season 9 American Idol finalist and one of country music’s hottest new stars, earlier today. We played a little bit of trivia with our Twitter followers in order to announce that he will perform an acoustic set at our 3rd Annual CountryMusicIsLove Concert Benefiting City of Hope.

We Tweeted out the following hints to see if our followers could guess which artist we were announcing…

Hint #1: Our first performer is from the great state of TEXAS….
Hint #2: He’s in Texas RIGHT NOW….
Meanwhile Casey Tweeted: “The air conditioner isn’t working in my ride. I don’t think I’ve ever been sweating this much in January. Gotta love Texas weather!”
Hint #3: The artist’s debut single is in the top 60 at country radio…
Hint #4: This artist is extremely good acoustic…
Hint #5: We bet he’s wearing a blue shirt right now…hmmmm someone has a vacation beard… #NoShaveJanuary?!
Meanwhile Casey Tweeted: No shave January 🙂 (with the photo shown below)

Casey is the first artist announced for this year’s show. Stay tuned- more artist announcements are coming soon! His debut single “Let’s Don’t Call It A Night” is climbing the charts country radio now. Be sure to download the song on iTunes, become a fan of Casey on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.

The 3rd Annual CountryMusicIsLove Concert Benefiting City of Hope will take place Tuesday, February 21 at the Exit/In in Nashville, TN. Get your tickets for just $15 (+$2.75 convenience fee) HERE.