Eric Church and Luke Combs have expressed to feeling "uncomfortable" in light of receiving an award that celebrates their humanitarian efforts for North Carolina.
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As everyone knows, Hurricane Helene struck western North Carolina and completely devastated the mountain towns. A month later in October, Eric Church and Luke Combs threw the star-studded Concert For Carolina. The event helped raise over $24 million for the recovery efforts. Both being North Carolina natives, they couldn't not do something.
Since then, Eric Church has been continuing to help the state, and has recently launched the "Blueprint for the Blue Ridge" project, which aims to build new homes for displaced families.
Considering the staggering amount of humanitarian and philanthropic efforts made by the pair of them, it's no wonder they received the CRS Artist Humanitarian Award as co-recipients.
Per Whiskeyriff, who attended the Country Radio Seminar, the artists felt uncomfortable accepting the reward, and for very humble reasons.
Eric Church And Luke Combs Express Their Feelings Toward Humanitarian Award
After stepping back out on stage to accept the award, Luke Combs said, "Me and Eric were talking just behind the curtain there and we were like, 'Man, what do you say when you get one of these things?'"
"This was the right thing to do, putting the show on. Me and Eric are both from that region of North Carolina that was most heavily impacted."
He shared that "there was never once a thought" that they wouldn't do the performance.
Eric Church then began. "I'm incredibly uncomfortable with an award like this. A mentor of mine said a long time ago, 'You should never think about what you get from doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing.' And in this regard, this was the right thing."
Concert For Carolina will "will forever be the greatest show" Church has ever played, he said.
For those doing the right thing for the sake of it, being awarded in this way must feel pretty strange. Not through uncomfortability, but because they feel they shouldn't be praised for simply doing the right thing.
Which, ironically, has made everyone praise them further.
