NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A benefit concert for western North Carolina is set to be held Sunday night in Nashville, according to the host, Asheville Guitar Pedals.

The fundraiser will be held at Soft Junk at 6p.m.

The event will include live music, a guitar raffle and a tattoo auction, Asheville Guitar Pedals said in a post on Instagram.

There will be performances by Longhorne Slim, Taylor Zachary, Jess Nolan and more.

The funds will support communities in western North Carolina that were affected by Hurricane Helene. The suggested donation amount is $35.

Soft Junk is located at 919 Gallatin Ave in Nashville.

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Helping hands stretched across the country in the wake of Helene, holding on to western North Carolina. People stepped up in the immediate aftermath, giving whatever they could. But sometimes, if there are too many voices, you can’t hear what the people in need actually need in the moment.

The organized chaos of people helping forged the friendship of two people: Heather Oberg and Nicole Schoychid. They both had the same idea.

“I had contacts up there and Nicole said she saw me sitting there trying to do something,” Schoychid said.

Heather’s background in project management mixed with Nicole’s boots-on-the-ground communication spawned a website called Supporting WNC. It’s a dashboard that allows donation centers to list what they need and don’t need in real-time.

For more information, go to supportingwnc.com.

BALTIMORE — Businesses in Baltimore and Harford County are doing everything they can to help out victims of Hurricane Helene and Milton even from hundreds of miles away. 

More than a million Floridians are without power as they continue to clean up debris left behind by Hurricane Milton. Meanwhile, people in parts of North Carolina are still grappling with entire neighborhoods being decimated by Hurricane Helene.   

Things we sometimes take for granted such as clean drinking water, blankets, pantry items, and lights are things people in Western North Carolina never expected to lose when floodwaters from Hurricane Helene ravaged their communities. 

“The area of North Carolina, they didn’t evacuate, there was no plan in place for a hurricane…so the need there is probably going to be there for a long time, and we don’t want to forget about these people,” Erin Schlichting, Co-owner of Clean Cuisine said. 

Last week, the owners of Clean Cuisine in Owings Mills coordinated with Gourmet Girls in Pikesville to collect survival items for hurricane victims in North Carolina. 

They said as soon as they posted the flier, donations started stacking up. 

“People brought in generators and clothing and it’s just amazing,” Gerry Schlichting, Owner of Clean Cuisine said. “Pet food and diapers and car seats,” Erin said.  

Gerry informed WJZ that the restaurant already has enough to fill up a truck to send down to North Carolina this week. 

“They’re actually loading up a truck on Monday to take it down and then they’re coming back on Tuesday or Wednesday to load up another one,” he said. 

In Abingdon, Box Hill Pizzeria will start collecting essential items to fill their large box truck on Monday. The truck will go down to Florida, bringing much-needed supplies to families impacted by Hurricane Milton. 

“Just because it’s not a local community that needs help, it’s an extended community and I just wanted to be there to help people,” Nico Kanaras, a partner of Box Hill Pizzeria said. 

Box Hill is also donating 10% of sales to hurricane relief efforts.