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LONG BEACH — The country band Whiskey Falls showed its heart for sick kids with a performance for children with heart disease.

They performed Friday at the annual fundraising concert for Camp del Corazon, a nonprofit organization that provides camping and other opportunities for children with cardiac problems.

"We just fell in love with the kids and the organization and we donate our time every year,” the group’s lead singer and principal songwriter, Seven Williams, said before the show. "We hang out and perform.”

He was won over, he said, after he and his wife, actress McKenzie Westmore, met a little girl at a charity event who talked about the difficulties of going to gym class after undergoing heart surgery.

Williams, whose given name is Keith, had his own childhood trauma and could relate. After learning on his 8th birthday that his godfather had died he said he refused to blow out the candles on his cake. He was told that if he didn’t he’d always remain age 7, and soon that became his nickname. He grew up hating it.

Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough weds longtime girlfriend in Orlando, Fla.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough is single no more. He wed his longtime girlfriend Saturday in his hometown, the band’s attorney confirmed.

Fellow Backstreet Boys bandmates were in attendance as Dorough, 34, married Leigh Boniello at St. James Cathedral in a traditional Catholic ceremony, People and OK! magazine reported on their Web sites.

"The wedding took place as planned and all went well,” attorney Jason L. Turner said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Dorough, also known as Howie D, proposed to his girlfriend of six years last New Year’s.

"She wasn’t expecting it, and I was quite nervous — more nervous about proposing to her in front of 40 family and friends than about performing in front of 40,000 people onstage,” Dorough told People earlier this year.