Cowboy hats, tight jeans and plaid shirts could be seen spread out through Club Aqua, a popular Sacramento area night club, Sunday as hundreds of country fans showed up to the KNCI&s Tsunami Relief Acoustic Jam, a charity event put on to raise money for tsunami victims.

The afternoon concert, organized by the local country station KNCI, raised more than $5,000 and had been advertised for only one week during the station&s &wake-up& show, the Pat and Tom Show.

&This is the first time we have ever done something like this and it&s a very spur of the moment thing,& said Greg Cole, assistant program director for KNCI.

Music artists Andy Griggs and Keni Thomas, songwriter and producer Brent Maher, songwriters Billy Montana and Jenai and guitarist Ilya Toshinsky showed up for the audience&s pleasure, volunteering their time and talent.

Griggs, a native of Louisiana, has several top 10 hits and is known for his interest in the community.

Cancer survivors, The Muscular Dystrophy Association, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, St. Jude&s Children&s Hospital, Alzheimer&s and the Crisis Center of Nashville are among some of the organizations Griggs has devoted his time to.

Thomas joins Griggs& reputation for being sympathetic to others& needs.

He comes from a military background, having been a Ranger in the special operation community who fought in the battle of Mogadishu in October 1993, which many people might recognize from the movie &Black Hawk Down.&

Thomas said a huge portion of his career&s proceeds have been going to the Hero Fund and Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which provides college educations for the children of the special operations soldiers killed in combat or training.

Club Aqua&s staff joined in KNCI&s excitement with the turn out.

&This is a crowd that will always jump at the chance to help out with fundraising,& said Myra Desarno, the club&s manager.

Club Aqua puts on Whiskey Night every Wednesday and Friday night, which brings people out to its honky-tonk atmosphere for a beer and some good line dancing.

Desarno said the charity concert was the largest fund-raiser the club has had so far and that she jumped at the chance to help out the tsunami victims in Southeast Asia.

All of the money brought into the club went directly to help those suffering on the other side of the world.

The concert&s $10 admission fee, a raffle and an auction helped KNCI raise the money needed for the tsunami fund, which it has added to the station&s priorities since linking up with the American Red Cross.

Amongst the many items given away in the raffle and auction were one of the artist&s guitar and pick, which brought in more than $300 and a one-year membership to California Family Fitness was given away.