Live Earth concerts kick off in Australia with a digeridoo-backed Aboriginal group

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN/AP: Live Earth concerts kick off in Australia


An Aboriginal performer helps kick off the Live Earth concert series in Sydney, Australia.

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- The Live Earth global concert series kicked off Saturday with a digeridoo-backed Aboriginal group dancing and singing a traditional welcome at the first venue in Sydney.

Tribal leaders with white-painted bodies and shaking eucalyptus fronds were the first of more than 150 performers at the nine, concert, 24-hour series to raise awareness about climate change.

The performance was immediately followed by a video greeting from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, whose campaign to force global warming onto the international political agenda inspired the event.

Gore invited the crowd -- which appeared to be several hundred when the show started at 11:30 a.m. local time (0130GMT) and scattered throughout the sporting stadium arena -- to take Live Earth's seven-point pledge to reduce their personal environmental impact and support policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

"Thank you for coming today and thank you for being the very first to launch this movement to help solve the climate crisis," Gore said, standing before the Capital building in Washington. "Enjoy the show."...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/06/liveearth.ap/index.html

[Labors of Hercules]

1. several hundred? Try many thousand... assholes.

[Robbien]

6. oh come on, you know the press will downplay everything about this

and only report disparaging comments from GOPers.

Notice that they said "at the beginning" and also notice they made sure to get this low count out first so that papers picking up the story later will keep repeating this low number.

Standard Operating Procedure.

[deadmessengers]

8. They just did a crowd shot

There had to be at least 50000 people there.

[Peggy Day]

2. I'm watching, and loving it! nt

[madfloridian]

3. Here's the Sundance Channel schedule

http://www.sundancechannel.com/liveearth

[Nomad559]

4. Link to streaming video

http://a2047.l3726859537.c37268.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/2047/37268/v0001/reflector:59537

:)

[The River]

5. The Digeridoo is an Amazing Instrument

It truly is a Key to "Dreamtime".
Playing one is a meditative experience.
After 20 minutes, everything disappears
but the sound and your breathing as you vibrate
in tune with all creation.
After a few hours..... everything disappears

[DeepModem Mom]

7. I heard the instrument played in Australia. This particular story interested me...

because the digeridoo, and those who play it, were involved in the Live Aid kick-off.