On Thursday evening (January 30th), two parallel charity concerts took place in Los Angeles to collect donations for people who have lost everything in the fires on Thursday evening (January 30).
The line-up of the shows was impressive: while in the Kia Forum Joni Mitchell, Anderson.paak and Green Day played, you could also see Peso Pluma, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry in the intuit Dome.
The ticket prices for the benefit concert started at $ 99 (the equivalent of around 95 euros), whereby the most expensive places went away right in front of the stage for around $ 1,445 euros). The organizers announced, which could be generated before the official concerts around $ 60 million in donations solely by ticket sales and company sponsorship.
Furthermore, the organizers of Fireaid worked with the artist Yoshitomo Nara and created their own Merch For the benefit event that can also be ordered on their website.
Nirvana reunion at Fireaid
Green Day with Special Guest Billie Eilish
Lady Gaga sings songs from “A Star is Born”
Billie Eilish performs with brother Finneas
Rare appearance by Joni Mitchell: “Both Sides Now”
Peso Pluma plays a remix of “La Bebe”
Anderson.paak fetches Dr. Dre on stage
The entire concert pulled over six hours and was streamed live on Disney+, Spotify and Netflix, among other things. The whole length concert is available here to see.
Several fires destroyed parts of Los Angeles – almost 12,000 apartments fell victim to the flames, around 150,000 people had to be evacuated and 29 people unfortunately also cost the flames.