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Katrina: Stars raise money
15/09/2005 10:29 - (SA)
New York - New Orleans music makers will join forces on Tuesday with stars such as Elton John, Tom Waits and Lenny Kravitz in a pair of concerts to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The shows - dubbed From the Big Apple to the Big Easy - will feature Fats Domino, the Neville Brothers, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Buckwheat Zydeco, Allen Toussaint, Kermit Ruffins, and the Rebirth Brass Band, joined at Madison Square Garden by John, Bette Midler, Diana Krall, Elvis Costello, Dave Matthews, Kravitz, and Simon and Garfunkel.
Simultaneously Radio City Music Hall will welcome the Mardi Gras Indians, Ray Lamontagne, Joss Stone, John Mayer and Tom Waits.
The concerts are to raise money for long-term rebuilding of New Orleans and the US Gulf coast.
Hurricane Katrina's death toll passed 650 from August 29 storm that ravaged coastal Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and some of northwest Florida.
- AFP
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