ACM Lifting Lives brought you another exciting ACM Awards performance on April 3rd, honoring the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and its work with men and women across the country with developmental disabilities. Chart-topping country artist Darius Rucker joined 25 ACM Lifting Lives music campers on stage at the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards for a special performance of "Music From the Heart," a song the campers wrote collectively last summer with Brett James and Chris Young at the ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp in Nashville. ACM Lifting Lives works year round to improve lives through the power of music by funding nationwide programs offering music therapy and music education. We invite you to join in supporting the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center to help advance research, treatment and understanding for people with Williams syndrome and other developmental disabilities.

Darius' performance continued the tradition of moving moments during the ACM Awards that help support ACM Lifting Lives and its beneficiaries. The first Lifting Lives show moment in 2009 featured Trace Adkins performing "'Til the Last Shot's Fired" with the West Point Glee Club. The moment raised funds and awareness for the Wounded Warrior Project, an organization that aids wounded American troops. Proceeds from downloads of the performance through iTunes were donated to Wounded Warrior Project. In the first 48 hours following the telecast, the video and song bundle of the performance was the #2 album on iTunes. Additionally, Wounded Warrior Project has received almost $50,000 in direct contributions through its dedicated ACM Lifting Lives donation page and from live audience viewers who made donations on-site following the awards show.

In 2010, Toby Keith and Dave Koz performed Toby Keith's "Cryin' for me (Wayman's Song)" to benefit Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C). Fans downloaded Toby's ACM Awards performance through iTunes immediately following the performance, with all proceeds benefitting SU2C, whose mission is to create and accelerate groundbreaking cancer research that will get new therapies to patients quickly and save lives.