Last Friday's multi-network Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast telethon raised over $30 million in pledges for storm victims. The next made-for-TV benefit, however, will make viewers pay upfront.

Tuesday night's From the Big Apple to the Big Easy will be a pay-per-view event spanning two landmark New York venues, Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall, and headlined by dozens of musical stars.

The Madison Square Garden roster features Simon and Garfunkel, Lenny Kravitz, Bette Midler, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Diana Krall and New Orleans natives the Neville Brothers and the Meters.

The Radio City Music Hall show, to be held simultaneously, will include Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio, Tom Waits, Joss Stone and John Mayer.

The event will be available live on pay-per-view for $19.95 on cable and satellite systems operated by Adelphia, Cablevision, Charter, EchoStar's Dish Network, Bright House Networks, DirecTV, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner. Money raised will go to a variety of relief efforts.

Before heading over to MSG, Costello will join Deborah Harry, Ryan Adams, Yo La Tengo, the Jazz Passengers and avante garde jazz masters John Zorn, Matthew Shipp and William Parker for another event Tuesday. A Jazz and Creative Music All-Star Benefit for the Artists of New Orleans, a five-and-a-half hour benefit at New York's Lincoln Center, that will be cohosted by Steve Buscemi.

On Sept. 24, the New Yorker is sponsoring a benefit featuring music and readings inspired by New Orleans bayou culture that will include Woody Allen, novelist Toni Morrison, Kevin Kline, Lou Reed, and--you guessed it--the omnipresent Costello.

While a multitude of jazz artists are raising funds for the Red Cross with a series of club gigs around New York, Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis will head out to Detroit on Sept. 29 to play alongside the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Money raised from that event will go to Habitat for Humanity's Operation Home Delivery, the organization's rebuilding plan for the Katrina-ravaged region.

While so much attention has been focused on the devastating flooding of New Orleans, there were other areas ruined. An event dubbed Mississippi Rising is being organized to help that state; it is set for the University of Mississippi in Oxford on Oct. 1.

Native Mississippians Morgan Freeman and Sela Ward, John Grisham and Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre will serve as honorary chairs and participate the event. They'll be joined by Whoopi Goldberg, Lance Bass, Ray Romano, Jason Alexander, Delta Burke and Kathy Lee Gifford, among others. Wayne's World director Penelope Spheeris will produce documentary segments for the benefit, which will be narrated by Goldberg.

Here's a look at some of the other Hurricane Katrina-related benefits in the works:

On Saturday, Jazz at Lincoln Center will host a benefit concert that will air live on PBS and NPR and feature Wynton Marsalis, Bill Cosby, Robert De Niro, Paul Simon and Laurence Fishburne. The show will be released on CD at a later date. MTV is teaming up with MSN Music, RealNetworks, Rhapsody, Sony Connect, Cdigix, FYE and Virgin Digital via MusicNet to offer downloads of 26 live performances from Sept. 10's ReAct Now: Music and Relief concert, which featured the likes of U2, Green Day, Beck, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Neil Young. The Recording Academy and MusiCares have made an initial $1 million donation to help musicians affected by Katrina. The Roots, Jill Scott, TV on the Radio and New Orleans' TBC Brass Band are teaming up for a benefit show in Philadelphia Friday night. Proceeds will go to the NAACP's hurricane fund and the TBC Brass Band, whose members were left homeless by the hurricane. CMT will air a benefit concert Oct. 1 featuring performances from Alan Jackson, Willie Nelson, George Strait and Kenny Chesney. The concert will take place at Reliant Stadium in Houston, home to thousands of evacuees in the aftermath of the disaster. Death Cab for Cutie has scheduled a benefit gig next Wednesday in Seattle. Mississippi hip-hopster David Banner is organizing a benefit concert in Atlanta featuring special guests Nelly, T.I. and Twista.