Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner fans have the chance to win a dinner date with the actor - he is auctioning himself off to raise money for the children of a woman who died at a Canadian music festival.

The star and his band Modern West were just about to perform at the Big Valley Jamboree in Alberta, Canada earlier this month (01Aug09) when a tornado brought the stage down, killing festival-goer Donna Moore, 35, and leaving 80 others injured.

Speaking after the event, Costner insisted he would return to Alberta to play a benefit concert there to mark the tragic death.

And now he has decided to raise money by auctioning off a dinner date and giving the proceeds to Moore's two sons, aged 16 and 10.

Despite debris reportedly falling around the Oscar winning actor and his manager Nick Meinama both were uninjured. The actor went on to pull people out of the collapsed stage.

As well as a festival goer Donna Moore had also been hired to work on the audion for Modern West and was killed when a speaker fell on her during the storm.


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