A few of music’s largest stars — together with Billie Eilish, Joni Mitchell, Olivia Rodrigo and plenty of others — are anticipated to carry out Thursday evening at FireAid, a star-studded profit to lift cash for hearth reduction efforts within the Los Angeles space.
The lineup is so intensive that the live performance might be held in two separate arenas.
Organizers stated that they might distribute donations with the recommendation of the Annenberg Basis and that support might be distributed each for short-term reduction efforts and long-term initiatives to stop future hearth disasters all through Southern California.
Within the days main as much as the present, organizers have stated that that they had already raised greater than $60 million from ticket gross sales and company sponsorships.
What time does the present begin, and the place can I watch?
The profit live performance will start at 9 p.m. Japanese time, 6 p.m. Pacific time, on the Kia Discussion board in Inglewood, Calif., the place Mitchell, the Purple Scorching Chili Peppers and Inexperienced Day are among the many acts scheduled to carry out.
Ninety minutes later, a second present will start on the close by Intuit Dome, that includes Eilish, Rodrigo, Girl Gaga and others. Producers cut up the lineup alongside tough style strains — extra rock-oriented acts on the Discussion board, and pop on the Intuit Dome.
Organizers stated that the present can be obtainable on platforms together with Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Hulu, Max, Paramount+, Peacock, and YouTube. It is going to even be obtainable on SiriusXM and iHeartRadio and screened at some AMC and Regal Cinema film theaters.
How the live performance got here collectively.
Planning for the live performance got here collectively terribly shortly, spearheaded by Irving Azoff, a longtime supervisor and energy dealer in music, and his household. Inside three days of the fires breaking out, the Intuit Dome, dwelling of the Los Angeles Clippers, had been secured and the occasion — with no artists but connected — had been introduced with the cooperation of Stay Nation and AEG Presents, who’re often bitter rivals because the world’s two largest live performance promoters.
In a latest telephone interview with The New York Occasions, Azoff stated the urgency of the disaster drove the timing of the live performance. With the Grammys on Sunday and the Tremendous Bowl the subsequent weekend, organizers felt that the present needed to happen as quickly as potential or be postpone till the top of February. “That is about fund-raising, and it’s good to get the cash within the financial institution as shortly as you may,” Azoff stated.
Organizers have stated that artists had been fast to hitch the trouble, with Rod Stewart the primary to signal on, adopted by Stevie Nicks, who plans to carry out an unrecorded tune.
They had been adopted by greater than two dozen artists — younger stars and older legends alike — with a concentrate on California-based acts, together with Mitchell, Eilish, Rodrigo, No Doubt, Girl Gaga, the Purple Scorching Chili Peppers and Inexperienced Day. The lineup was introduced on Jan. 16.
“We had been very fortunate in that our factor was booked virtually completely by individuals volunteering,” Azoff stated.