Billie Eilish and Finneas, Joni Mitchell, Lady Gaga, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Katy Perry, Green Day and Jelly Roll join FireAid, the first fundraising mega-event to support Los Angeles fire relief efforts joins the lineup. Era.
The benefit concert will be held at two arenas in Inglewood, California, the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum, on January 30th, three days before this year's Grammy Awards ceremony, and tickets will go on sale next Wednesday through Ticketmaster. The event organizers announced that. Thursday.
The show includes Earth, Wind & Fire, Gracie Abrams, Gwen Stefani, Lil Baby, Pink, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stephen Stills, Tate McRae, Dave Matthews and John Mayer. are also scheduled to perform, and “additional artists will be announced soon.'' organizers said in a statement.
FireAid will be broadcast in select AMC theaters as well as on various platforms including YouTube, Apple Music, Max, Paramount+, Prime Music, SiriusXM and iHeartRadio.
For the music industry, the concert will now be the centerpiece of the week before the Grammys, when record labels and talent agencies often host glitzy parties and showcases. Those parties have now been canceled, and businesses say they will divert funds that would have been spent on fire relief. The diplomatic language of the news release announcing these changes suggests there is some level of opposition within the industry to the Recording Academy's decision to proceed with the Grammy Awards ceremony instead of moving or postponing it. I was doing it.
This week, the Academy scaled back its usual schedule of pre-Grammy events, with MusicCares Dinner, a tribute to the Grateful Dead benefiting the Grammys' featured charities, and Clive Davis' glitzy annual party. announced that it would be placed on the calendar. Harvey Mason Jr., the academy's chief executive, announced in a statement that these events “are designed to use the power of music to rebuild, uplift and support those in need.”
The benefit concert was announced last Friday, with no artists in attendance and the Intuit Dome as the only venue. But in recent days, gossip has been swirling in the music industry that the show is being put together at a rapid pace, with two venues being held in addition to the nearby Forum.
This work was produced by long-time artist manager and industry power broker Irving Azoff, his wife Sherry, and their family in collaboration with Live Nation and AEG Presents, two of the world's largest concert promoters. I am doing it. Los Angeles.
Rock icons Eagles, who have long been associated with Azoff, are not part of FireAid's lineup, but yesterday announced they would donate $2.5 million to the cause. (The band is in the midst of a weekend residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, but is not scheduled to play there during FireAid week.)
Event organizers say proceeds from the show will go to nonprofit organizations “focused on rebuilding infrastructure, supporting evacuated families, and advancing fire protection technologies and strategies to better prepare Los Angeles for fire emergencies.” He said it would be done.
