Musical advocacy groups Musical advocacy groups The Day Of The Child 24/24 World Concert is a 24-hour live concert and television special, which will feature a live webcast and a pay-per-view event. The theme for the concert, which will include three stages, is "Dream The Biggest Dreams". ...more on Wikipedia about "24/24 World Concert"
Band Aid is a British and Irish charity supergroup founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing a record Do They Know It's Christmas? for the Christmas market. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release and on two subsequent releases. It was produced by Trevor Horn. ...more on Wikipedia about "Band Aid (band)"
Bands Against Bush is an international resistance movement of bands and artists dedicated to the removal of George W. Bush, his administration and the rest of the PNAC from control of the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bands Against Bush"
A benefit concert is a concert featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis. Such events raise both funds and public awareness to address the cause at issue. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benefit concert"
Farm Aid started as a benefit concert on September 22, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois, held to raise money for family farmers in the United States. The concert was organized by Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp, spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year. Nelson and Mellencamp then brought family farmers before Congress to testify about the state of family farming in America. Congress subsequently passed the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to help save family farms from foreclosure. ...more on Wikipedia about "Farm Aid"
Hear 'n Aid was a joint effort from the heavy metal scene of the 80s to raise money for famine relief in Africa. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hear 'n Aid"
Live 8 was a series of concerts that took place in July 2005, in the G8 nations and South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 Conference and Summit held at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire, Scotland from July 6-8, 2005; they also coincided with the 20th anniversary of Live Aid. Running parallel with the UK's Make Poverty History campaign, the shows planned to pressure world leaders to drop the debt of the world's poorest nations, increase and improve aid, and negotiate fairer trade rules in the interest of poorer countries. Ten simultaneous concerts were held on 2 July and one on 6 July. On 7 July the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010. ...more on Wikipedia about "Live 8" Pure http://www.shortopedia.com. Pure Information Power.
Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia. Billed as a "global jukebox", the main sites for the event were Wembley Stadium, London, attended by 72,000 people, and JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, attended by about 90,000 people, with some acts performing at other venues such as Sydney and Moscow. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and TV broadcasts of all time: an estimated 1.5 billion viewers in 100 countries watched the live broadcast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Live Aid"
Love Music Hate Racism is a campaign organised by the Anti-Nazi League. ...more on Wikipedia about "Love Music Hate Racism"
Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, was an activist group founded in 1979 by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hall of Orleans. The group advocated against the use of nuclear energy, forming shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in March 1979. MUSE organized a series of five No Nukes concerts held at Madison Square Garden in New York in September 1979. They also staged a large rally in downtown Battery Park. ...more on Wikipedia about "Musicians United for Safe Energy"
Northern Lights was the name used by the supergroup of Canadian musicians who gathered in 1985 to record the single " Tears Are Not Enough". ...more on Wikipedia about "Northern Lights (band)"
Rock Against Racism was a campaign set up by Red Saunders, Roger Huddle and others in winter 1976. It was founded in response by apparently racist comments made by musicians David Bowie and Eric Clapton. RAR's first activity was a concert at which Carol Grimes was the lead artist. RAR later launched its own fanzine, Temporary Hoarding. In spring and autumn 1978, RAR organised two major Carnivals music together with the Anti-Nazi League to fight the growing wave of racist attacks in the UK. First 80,000 and then over 100,000 people marched six miles from Trafalgar Square to the East End of London (a National Front "hotspot") for an open-air gig featuring The Clash (as seen in the film Rude Boy), The Buzzcocks, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex and the Tom Robinson Band. It has recently been reborn as Love Music Hate Racism with a gig at The Astoria in London, featuring Mick Jones, The Buzzcocks, and The Libertines. Other current acts involved are Ms. Dynamite and The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rock Against Racism"
The Concert For Bangladesh was the event title for two concerts held on the afternoon and evening of August 1, 1971, playing to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Concert for Bangladesh"
Tsunami Relief Cardiff was a charity music concert held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on January 22 2005, in aid of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, occurring the month before. The concert raised over £1.25 million (€1.8 million or $2.4 million). ...more on Wikipedia about "Tsunami Relief Cardiff" My http://www.shortopedia.com and me.
USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa), was the name under which forty-five US artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single " We Are the World" in 1985. The song was a UK Number One for the collective in April of that year. ...more on Wikipedia about "USA for Africa"
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