Blake Shelton and Patti LaBelle Star In "Clash of the Choirs”

Blake Shelton is making a list and checking it twice -- mainly to figure out where he'll be during the holiday season. In addition to visiting his family in Oklahoma and relatives of his girlfriend, singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert in Texas, he'll also be performing New Year's Eve in Kentucky.

Before any of that happens, though, he'll be spending several days in New York City to work on the TV reality series, Clash of the Choirs, which runs Monday through Thursday nights (Dec. 17-20) on NBC. The competition centers around five celebrities who returned to their hometowns to form an amateur choir to compete live as viewers judge the nightly performances.

NBC reality show “Clash of the Choirs” airs Monday with big names in the music industry; among them, Michael Bolton from New Haven, Nick Lachey from Cincinnati, Kelly Rowland from Houston and Blake Shelton from Oklahoma City, and Patti LaBelle from Philadelphia. The five choirs that compete in this reality show will donate the earnings to charity, for hometown causes. The four-night-in-a-row live show awards a community prize and each of the five starts is supposed to choose 20 people to be in their choir.

Patti LaBelle is also looking forward to the show, and encourages her choir the best way she can; “Scream like a woman with a black man chasing you, trying to get your purse,” said LaBelle in a press conference over the phone. However, she felt like she should explain herself: “I have more white than black (people in her group). So I’m not prejudiced. I don’t have no racial thing going through this.”