Billie Eilish and Finneas, Joni Mitchell, Woman Gaga, Stevie Nicks, Sting, Katy Perry, Inexperienced Day and Jelly Roll will likely be a part of the lineup for FireAid, the primary fund-raising mega-event to help hearth reduction efforts within the Los Angeles period.
The profit live performance will happen on Jan. 30 — three days earlier than this yr’s Grammy Awards — on the Intuit Dome and Kia Discussion board, two arenas in Inglewood, Calif., with tickets happening sale by means of Ticketmaster subsequent Wednesday, the occasion’s organizers introduced on Thursday.
The present may also function Earth, Wind & Fireplace, Gracie Abrams, Gwen Stefani, Lil Child, Pink, the Purple Scorching Chili Peppers, Stephen Stills, Tate McRae and Dave Matthews with John Mayer, with “further artists to be introduced shortly,” the organizers mentioned in an announcement.
FireAid is to be broadcast at choose AMC film theaters, together with numerous different platforms together with YouTube, Apple Music, Max, Paramount+, Prime Music, SiriusXM and iHeartRadio.
For the music trade, the live performance will now change into a focus of the pre-Grammy week, when document labels and expertise businesses sometimes host splashy events and showcases. These events have now been canceled, with corporations saying they might divert the cash they might have spent to fireplace reduction; the diplomatic language of the information releases asserting these modifications hinted at a sure stage of dissent within the trade over the Recording Academy’s resolution to go ahead with the Grammy ceremony in any respect, as a substitute of transferring or suspending it.
This week, the academy introduced a diminished schedule of its standard pre-Grammy occasions, holding on the calendar the MusiCares dinner — a tribute to the Grateful Useless, to learn the Grammys’ flagship charity — and Clive Davis’s glitzy annual celebration. These occasions, Harvey Mason Jr., the chief government of the academy introduced, “will likely be about utilizing the facility of music to assist rebuild, uplift and help these in want.”
The profit live performance was introduced final Friday, with no artists hooked up to it, and solely Intuit Dome because the venue. However gossip has swirled by means of the music trade in current days that the present was coming collectively shortly, and had expanded into two venues, with the addition of the close by Discussion board.
It’s being produced by Irving Azoff, a longtime artist supervisor and trade energy dealer, alongside together with his spouse, Shelli, and their household, at the side of Reside Nation and AEG Presents, the world’s two largest live performance promoters, each of that are primarily based in Los Angeles.
Eagles, the rock icons lengthy related to Azoff, will not be on the FireAid lineup however introduced yesterday they might donate $2.5 million to the trigger. (The band is within the midst of a weekend residency at Sphere in Las Vegas, although just isn’t scheduled to carry out there through the week of FireAid.)
Organizers of the occasion mentioned that proceeds from the present would go towards a nonprofit group that might “concentrate on rebuilding infrastructure, supporting displaced households, and advancing hearth prevention applied sciences and techniques to make sure L.A. is healthier ready for hearth emergencies.”