| Article Content | Music calendars nowadays are filled with numerous events that are setup for charity. Charities such as development in third world countries, humanitarian crisis, natural disasters, epidemics, breast cancer causes, etc are some of the causes that charities are used as a reason for concerts. Most charity concerts involve popular artists who leg go of their high fess in return to play for the cause that they support.
These charity concerts are also a way for artists, both big and small to effectively display their skills also to increase this celebrity image status. This is the reason top artists are nowadays agreeing to play in third world countries so that their popularity increases. Sometimes a few bands organize charity concerts on their own without the assistance of any top charity organization. Charity concerts have also become a way for artists to raise a cause to the notice of thousands of people. In the past artists have used charity concerts as a way to object to the way a government is running the country or the inequalities faced by their citizens. With the large fan base, this has become easy for artists to gather a large number of supporters for their cause. There have been benefit concerts that can rival any major event with volunteers as some of major artists in the music industry. These concert tickets are priced slightly lower than other concerts and see participations of people all around the world. One of the recent major charity concerts that was organized the world over with almost all of the major artists known to the world was organized in Live 8 in 2005. Ten concerts around the world, one simultaneously after the other with more than a 1000 artists was one of the largest gathering of artists known to man. |