One of the biggest music events ever (another one?) is taking place this year.
India is set to host a new installment of Live Earth, which will feature tons of celebrities in an effort to raise funds for solar energy.
According to Live Earth founder Kevin Wall, the event this year will take place in Mumbai on December 7th.
And, during a recent press conference, Wall said this would be “one of the biggest events ever produced here and one of the major events on television.”
He added, “If you’re alive in India, somewhere, somehow, you can see or hear or become part of this event.”
The show will also be shown live in more than 100 countries.
We’ll have to wait a few weeks to find out the whole list of celebs involved, but a video message was shown during the new conference which had Jon Bon Jovi saying he’d participate.
Proceeds from the show will go to several projects, including the Light A Billion Lives campaign, which is also supported by the chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The goal of that campaign is to provide the 1.6 billion people world-wide who don’t have access to electricity with solar-powered lanterns.
Even Al Gore spoke, via satellite from the US, and praised India by saying it was chosen since it’s “the world’s largest democracy, one of the oldest and greatest civilisations, but also because of its emerging economic clout on the global stage. Because of all those factors, it is poised to play a tremendous leadership role as we begin the 21st century.”
Hopefully many people watch and donate.
[Image via AP Images.]
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