Venues have been announced and 16 headliners revealed for Live Earth's U.S. show. If you want to be one of the two billion people gathering in the name of combating climate change, you better have your credit card ready Monday, April 16 at 10 a.m. EDT. And if required, a bus ticket to East Rutherford, New Jersey's Giants Stadium.
"We hope the energy created by Live Earth will jump start a massive public education effort," Live Earth Co-Chair Vice President Al Gore said. "Live Earth will help us reach a tipping point that's needed to move corporations and governments to take decisive action to solve the climate crisis." from the press release
On stage in NJ
London's lineup is just as impressive with the Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas, Bloc Party, Corinne Bailey Rae, Damien Rice, David Gray, Duran Duran, Foo Fighters, Genesis, James Blunt, John Legend, Keane, Madonna, Paolo Nutini, Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snow Patrol.
Live Earth will also stage concerts at
Aussie Stadium, Sydney; Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro; Cradle of Human Kind, Johannesburg; Tokyo Stadium, Tokyo and the
Steps of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai.
If you don't get tickets
MSN will be streaming the concerts as they happen at
LiveEarth.MSN.com, while NBC is taking care of the televised broadcast in
the U.S. (it's one of 120 networks around the world that'll be showing it).
For tickets, hit livenation.com/liveearth or call Ticketmaster at
(212) 307-7171. All proceeds are going to The Alliance for Climate
Protection and other international NGOs.
