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Live Earth concerts begin in Sydney and Tokyo

By M&C News Jul 7, 2007, 9:35 GMT

The global Live Earth concerts kicked off in Sydney on Saturday with a traditional Aboriginal welcome, and in Tokyo Japan with a virtual hello. The 24-hour global concert series is being held to help raise awareness for the environment and climate change concerns. Aboriginal dancers perform at Live Earth The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis at Aussie Stadium in Sydney, Australia, 07, July 2007. Live Earth is a 24 hour, seven continent concert series bring together more than 150 music artists and two billion people to inspire a global movement to raise awareness for climate change. EPA/TRACEY NEARMY AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

Aboriginal dancers perform at Live Earth The Concerts For A Climate In Crisis at Aussie Stadium in Sydney, Australia, 07, July 2007. Live Earth is a 24 hour, seven continent concert series bring together more than 150 music artists and two billion people to inspire a global movement to raise awareness for climate change. EPA/TRACEY NEARMY AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUTFormer Vice President Al Gore made appearances at both of the concerts via a hologram at the Tokyo show and as a live video link at the Sydney performance. In both appearances, Gore encouraged the fans to help the fight against global warming.In Sydney, Gore thanked the crowd for joining the event and for “being the very first to launch this movement to help solve the climate crisis.” The Sydney show featured Aboriginal tribal leaders (who sported white-painted bodies and shook eucalyptus fronds) singing and dancing a traditional welcome to the huge crowd numbering in the thousands.The show also featured Australian actress Toni Collette taking the stage to perform “Cowboy Games” – which she dedicated to the world’s political leaders. The actress and her band, the Finnish, also performed a cover of the T-Rex classic “Children of the Revolution.” Other performers scheduled at the Sydney concert included Crowded House, Wolfmother, John Butler, Paul Kelly and Missy Higgins.The Tokyo concert started with a laser/light show by virtual-reality act Genki Rockets, and also featured Japanese singer Ayaka.A hologram of Gore delivered the purpose of the global concerts. He stated: “With Live Earth, we hope to connect people through the power of music and engage them with a simple universal message: SOS. Answer the call.”The biggest music names scheduled to take the stage for Live Earth are at the London and New Jersey shows. Acts scheduled to appear include Madonna, Metallica, the Police and Kanye West with smaller lineups planned for other venues. There are Live Earth concerts planned for Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; Hamburg, Germany; London; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and New Jersey and Washington.

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TsturdzJul 7th, 2007 - 12:48:32

Wolfmother in Sydney is gonna rock the environments greenie socks off!!!

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lanceJul 7th, 2007 - 15:24:03

... so how much energy did they save by having their party ...

Funny how people expend vast amount of energy trying to tell other people to stop using so much energy. I wonder if Madonna, etc. walked to the event or if they took a jet. Perhaps they had a bicycle and rowboat and peddled and rowed there. I will give them the benefit of the doubt.

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