Ticketmaster plans to pull together all the benefit shows listed with its company on one page of its Web site, at. Hip-hop moguls give 1 million to Katrina relief, join telethons. Next month, the band Pearl Jam will play at Chicago’s House of Blues to raise money for the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, and the Jazz Foundation of America. 'Our New Orleans' features music by Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dr. Matthews to carry out his band’s charitable work, and will be distributed for both short-term disaster relief and long-term rebuilding. A new CD to benefit Katrina victims will also be released today. Remarkably, the earnings gap is erased the following year, and by 2008, the hurricane victims actually have higher. In 2006, the year after the storm, wage and salary income for the average Katrina victim in our sample is roughly 2,200 lower than their matched counterparts.
Here in Tyler we have MANY shelters housing evacuees from the gulf coast. Facts about Hurricane Katrina, and the benefits of regional migration. The money will be donated to the Bama Works Foundation, which was set up by Mr. All-ages outdoor dance music benefit event for the victims of hurricane Katrina. Everyone involved - including performers, vendors, truck drivers, stage hands, and city and county public-safety workers - donated their services, keeping the expenses of staging the show to a minimum, according to the show’s promoter, Chuck Morris Presents. Matthews already has raised $1.5-million by staging a benefit concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver on September 12. These range from star-studded megashows like two in New York City on September 20 - which featured performers like Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Elton John, Bette Midler, and Simon & Garfunkel - to smaller concerts scattered around the country in places like the Oglethorpe Speedway Park, in Pooler, Ga. The September 9 show raised $40-million, according to Reuters.Īt least 70 Katrina benefit shows have been scheduled at venues for which Ticketmaster handles sales, according to the nation’s leading ticket seller. Beginning with the “Shelter From the Storm” event, broadcast on 26 television networks September 9, musicians from every genre have been participating in fund-raising events. Tom Waits, Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio, John Mayer Trio, Joss Stone and the Meters have signed on for a September 20 benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina victims at New York's Radio City Music.