Rascal Flatts photo courtesy of Lyric Street Records.
September 24, 2007 — Rascal Flatts played a benefit concert for Vanderbilt Children's Hospital Friday night, and in the packed audience were family and friends of a teenaged cancer victim the band had befriended there, Nashville's WKRN reports.
Years before she became ill, Deanna Glossup loved Rascal Flatts. When cancer struck, she ended up at the hospital, and that was the year Rascal Flatts started its annual visits there. She then turned into a super-fan.
In April, Deanna succumbed to cancer, but her parents went to Rascal Flatts' hospital visit last month anyway. When the band found out that the Glossups and some friends wanted to go to Friday's concert, the guys made arrangements for several tour buses to pick up a group of 70 in Pulaski, Tenn., and treat them to the show.
Rascal Flatts turned over all the proceeds from the concert to Vanderbilt before the show, a total of $830,000.
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