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Garth Brooks responded personally to the devastating fires in Southern California by pledging more than $3 million in proceeds from five sold-out concerts in Los Angeles in January 2008, to the McCormick Tribune Foundation's "2008 Fire Intervention Relief Effort." The Foundation has already provided $1 million in matching funds for the first $2 million that was raised from concert ticket sales.
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Garth Brooks pledged to do a single show in Kansas City, Mo., as a thank you to Wal-Mart for lining his coffers with the repackaging of his catalog. Show, at KC's brand new Sprint Center where a Miley Cyrus concert on-sale turned into
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Garth had the largest crowd to ever attend a concert in Central Park on August 7, 1997. It is estimated that over 1 million people showed for the live concert and 14.6 million saw it live on HBO.
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Garth Brooks has cleaned out his closet, giving some of what he found to the Smithsonian in the nation's capital, reports The Washington Post's Reliable Source column. Among the donations: a reconstructed smashed guitar from a 1991 TV appearance, a Western-style concert outfit (including black elephant-skin boots), handwritten lyrics on a yellow legal pad and some plaques for sales milestones, including one adorned by a gold-painted audio cassette tape.
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