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One World Together At Home So Far Has Raised $US128M

Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, Lady Gaga, and Lang Lang performed The Prayer as a finale to the One World: Together at Home show last night.

One World Together At Home So Far Has Raised $US128M

By David Farrell

International advocacy organization Global Citizen, together with Lady Gaga, has announced US$127.9M in commitments to date in support of healthcare workers in the fight against the global pandemic. The pre-recorded segments spliced together for Sunday’s six-hour One World Together At Home special was live-streamed across 175 countries by 60 global broadcast networks and nine digital platforms.


Canada’s Michael Bublé, Celine Dion and Shawn Mendes were a part of the galaxy of musical talents from across the planet who used various online platforms to contribute to the extravaganza that doubled as a reason to give us a ‘smile’ during the pandemic, as too a fund-raiser for global and local orgs in the front line in the war on the virus that is attributable for over 165K deaths worldwide and 1,587 in Canada.

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Variety offers a review of the headlining final two-hour broadcast, Billboard has the ’10 best moments’ and below you can view the entire show or the abridged final two-hour telecast.

 

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Matthew Good
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Matthew Good

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Musician Matthew Good Cancels Upcoming U.S. Tour Dates Due to Trump Administration

“Every week that goes by, I have a deeper disdain for what’s going on there politically,” he said in a Facebook post.

Matthew Good won’t be crossing the border for the foreseeable future.

On Friday (July 11), the Canadian rocker took to Facebook to share the cancellation of three upcoming U.S tour dates, and said he’s willing to “risk [his] future U.S. career, to stand up against things today.”

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