{"id":119213,"date":"2025-02-04T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/04\/star-studded-fireaid-benefit-concerts-estimated-to-have-raised-100-million\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T18:02:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:02:18","slug":"star-studded-fireaid-benefit-concerts-estimated-to-have-raised-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/04\/star-studded-fireaid-benefit-concerts-estimated-to-have-raised-100-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Star-studded FireAid benefit concerts estimated to have raised $100 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-04\/M_FireAidGeneric_012025.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Live Nation\/AEG Presents\/Azoff Company\/LA Clippers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fundraising is still ongoing, but the FireAid benefit concerts, which took place Jan. 30 in Inglewood, California, raised more than $100 million for LA wildfire relief.<\/p>\n<p>The concerts took place at both the Kia Forum and the Intuit Dome, and featured over 30 artists, including\u00a0<strong>Billie Eilish<\/strong>,<strong> Katy Perry<\/strong>,<strong> Lady Gaga<\/strong>,<strong> Olivia Rodrigo<\/strong>,<strong> No Doubt<\/strong>,<strong> Pink<\/strong>,<strong> Rod Stewart<\/strong>,<strong> John Mayer<\/strong>,<strong> Stevie Nicks<\/strong>,<strong> Alanis Morissette<\/strong>,<strong> Gracie Abrams<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Joni Mitchell<\/strong>,<strong> Graham Nash<\/strong>,<strong> Jelly Roll<\/strong>,<strong> Sting<\/strong>,<strong> Red Hot Chili Peppers<\/strong>,<strong> Green Day<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Stephen Stills, Stevie Wonder<\/strong>\u00a0and a reunited<strong> Nirvana<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated amount raised included ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandise sales, donations from the public and private gifts, including $2.5 million from the <strong>Eagles<\/strong> and $1 million from <strong>U2<\/strong>. In addition, LA Clippers owners <strong>Steve <\/strong>and<strong> Connie Ballmer<\/strong> matched every pledge made during the concert stream, which was viewable on 28 streaming platforms and drew more than 50 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, the stream is still available via those platforms, including Apple TV+, Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, Hulu, Max and Paramount+.<\/p>\n<p>As for where the money is going, the FireAid Grants Advisory Committee has been working to &#8220;identify key areas of need for maximum impact,&#8221; according to a press release. The first grants will be awarded later in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Nation\/AEG Presents\/Azoff Company\/LA Clippers Fundraising is still ongoing, but the FireAid benefit concerts, which took place Jan. 30 in Inglewood, California, raised more than $100 million for LA wildfire relief. The concerts took place at both the Kia Forum and the Intuit Dome, and featured over 30 artists, including\u00a0Billie<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/02\/04\/star-studded-fireaid-benefit-concerts-estimated-to-have-raised-100-million\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}