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Country music awards show performance to draw attention to childhood hunger

From left, Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Schlapman, Karen Fairchild, and Jimi Westbrook of Little Big Town attend the 44th Annual Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 10, 2010. Larry Busacca/Getty Images

(CBS/AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The members of Little Big Town are planning to send a message with their Academy of Country Music Awards performance.

The "Bring it on Home " quartet will sing a song called "Here's Hope" with a children's choir to raise awareness about child hunger in the United States. ACM new artist of the year nominee Hunter Hayes co-wrote the song and will introduce the performance.

It's all part of the ACM Lifting Lives Moment that will take place during the April 1 awards show.

Hayes and Little Big Town are encouraging people to participate in the ConAgra Foods Child Hunger Ends Here campaign. It will donate up to five million meals to Feeding America this school year.

The ACMs will air live from Las Vegas on CBS.

Little Big Town has four studio albums to its credit, the most recent of which, "The Reason Why," was released in 2010.

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