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Metallica Donates Polar Prize Proceeds To Charities

His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden personally gave Lars Ulrich and Robert Trujillo the award.

Metallica Donates Polar Prize Proceeds To Charities

By Aaron Brophy

Metallica has donated the one million Swedish krona (C$149,851) Polar Music Prize award to three different charities, including one fellow Polar winner.

Founded in 1989 by Abba's manager Stig ”Stikkan” Anderson, the Polar Prize "celebrates the power and importance of music and is awarded to individuals, groups or institutions for international recognition of excellence in the world of music." Past winners have included musical elite such as Paul Simon, Sting, Björk, Led Zeppelin, Ravi Shankar and Joni Mitchell.

Through Metallica's own All Within My Hands charity the band will be donating 50 percent of their award proceeds towards homeless support organization Stockholm City Mission, while another 25 percent will go to World Childhood Foundation, which was founded in 1999 by Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children.

Continue reading Aaron Brophy's story on the SamaritanMag website.


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Rush's Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
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Rush Expand 50th Anniversary Tour Again, Add 17 Cities Including Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver

Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson will be joined by German drummer Anika Nilles on the outing that is slated to kick off on June 7 in Los Angeles.

After announcing an initial run of 12 shows celebrating their 50th anniversary as a band and then expanding on that first run of gigs, Rush has added another 17 dates to their Fifty Something 2026 arena tour.

On Monday morning (Oct. 20), founding members bassist/singer Geddy Lee and guitarist/singer Alex Lifeson announced that they have added new shows in Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Edmonton, Seattle and Vancouver to the outing on which they will pay tribute to late drummer/lyricist Neil Peart.

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