Multi-platinum country singer-songwriter Jo Dee Messina has just announced she will perform an additional matinee show December 5 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM at Brentwood United Methodist Church to raise funds for Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation (CDC), a non-profit, faith-based organization in South Nashville.

 JO DEE’s 7:00 PM show “sold out” with all 1800 free tickets claimed.  The church and Harvest Hands subsequently received numerous inquiries as to whether more tickets would become available.  JO DEE graciously agreed to another show with hopes to raise twice as much money for the organization.  Tickets for the matinee show are available now free-of-charge at Jo Dee’s website. 

 ”Harvest Hands is truly an amazing organization,” says JO DEE.  “It is currently taking the inner city of Nashville and is changing it one life at a time with educating, kindness and love.  To go down and actually see how they are making a difference has touched me.”  

 In an interview with Tonic.com, Jo Dee said: “This is not something where they go in from 9 to 5 and then go back to their house in the hills.  He (Reverend Brian Hicks) and his wife live there, in the inner city. They went into this community and said, ‘What do you need from us?’ The first thing they did was go in and knock down a crack house. The church bought it, went in, knocked it down and made a playground out of it. This is not people throwing money at a problem; they’re living in the midst of it and helping with their time and their love and understanding.” To read the whole interview, go here.

JO DEE will perform–along with the BUMC youth choir–a wide array of songs from her 2002 Christmas album A Joyful Noise, other holiday classics and music from her next album, including the upcoming single “That’s God.”  The concert will also be streamed live on her Web site and at Ustream.com. Messina hopes that fans who attend the concert will make a donation to Harvest Hands.