Stevie Wonder to appear at Sunday's flood relief concert in Cayce

Stevie Wonder will appear the Rocking 4 Relief Concert in Cayce Sunday, where he will receive a key to the city from Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin.

Wonder is not officially going to perform, event host Florida National Guard spokeswoman Debra Cox said. BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, one of the event’s main sponsors, tweeted Friday that Wonder would play. The City of Columbia also put out a press release saying the concert “will feature a number of world-class performers in addition to Stevie Wonder.” But reports that he will headline are incorrect, Cox said.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons will perform, howerver. Other performers include R&B singer Lyfe Jennings, “America’s Got Talent” contestant and Greenville native Benton Blount, season 12 “American Idol” winner and St. Helena Island native Candice Glover, Malina Moye, Martin Guigui, Tal Bergman, Carmine Rojas, Ron DeJesus, Kimberly Nichole and the Benedict College Gospel Choir.

The Rocking 4 Relief show is 5-9 p.m. Sunday at the Columbia Historic Speedway. The concert raises funds for those devastated by the recent floods in South Carolina and is also to remember the victims of the AME church shooting in Charleston, according to the event website.

“For a man like Stevie Wonder to donate his time and his remarkable talent to helping us overcome two of the most devastating tragedies this community and this state have ever known is truly humbling,” Mayor Benjamin said in the press release. “Not only has his music defined a generation, but his sense of service and charity inspires us all.”

Tickets are $15 general admission, $40 VIP. Profits from ticket sales will be donated to various nonprofits including the South Carolina Flood Relief Fund at Central Carolina Community Foundation.

For tickets and more information, visit rocking4relief.com/

This story was originally published November 13, 2015 at 11:25 AM.