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Toronto among new Live 8 concerts
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Gigs in Toronto, Tokyo and Johannesburg have been added to the burgeoning Live 8 event, in addition to a concert in Cornwall, England, spotlighting African music.
The new venues join the five previously announced free concerts set for July 2 in London, Philadelphia, Rome, Paris and Berlin, organizer Bob Geldof said Thursday.
Further details will be announced officially on Friday, the former Boomtown Rat singer and anti-poverty activist told journalists as he prepared to receive an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin.
Geldof hopes that former South African president Nelson Mandela will assist with that announcement. "Mandela, if he's well enough, will bring it to the world," the Irish rocker said.
Geldof and Midge Ure, the main proponents behind 1985's Live Aid campaign to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief, reunited to organize the upcoming star-studded shows. Their aim is to raise awareness about the poverty facing nations in Africa and elsewhere in the world, as well as pressure the Group of Eight leaders – meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, from July 6-8 – to increase their foreign aid budgets and cancel debts owed by poor countries.
Canadians scramble to organize affiliated concert
Since Geldof and Ure announced the July 2 Live 8 concerts – including a subsequent concert and protest rally in Edinburgh on the first day of the G8 summit – a Canadian team has been scrambling to pull together an associated event.
World Vision Canada, one of many charity groups affiliated with Live 8 and the global Make Poverty History campaign, has been working with key organizers behind other recent Canadian charity benefits, including Rolling Stones concert promoter Michael Cohl and Senator Jerry Grafstein.
Philip Maher, senior communications manager for World Vision, told the Canadian Press late Wednesday afternoon that Cohl will deliver "the official word" on the venue and lineup of the Canadian concert.
Concert featuring African acts added in Cornwall
Live 8 organizers also announced Wednesday that a separate July 2 concert entitled Africa Calling will be held in Cornwall, England. Live 8 drew fire from members of the British music community for its lack of African artists at the London concert.
Africa Calling is a chance to restore the balance, musician Peter Gabriel said Wednesday. Gabriel is helping to organize the smaller-scale event in southwestern England. Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour – who is scheduled to perform at the Paris Live 8 concert – will serve as host for Africa Calling, which will include performances by West African singer Angelique Kidjo, Somalian vocalist Maryam Mursal and Senegalese hip-hop group Daara J.
"Bob's sole criteria is that he has to keep millions of eyes around the world glued to the television and he felt if it was some remote part of China or Latin America, if it was an unknown artist ... people might switch off," Gabriel told British media.
"So if they didn't sell 10 million records they weren't going to be invited. I don't agree that's the right thing to do, but I fully understand."
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