Hope for Haiti Now telethon benefit took over all our TV stations last night. (I can't post them all, but you should check out all the musical performances at http://www.cmt.com/videos/hope-for-haiti-now-performances/1630346/playlist-detail.jhtml) The program was also broadcast in Canada - North Americans coming together in song and love with money pledges to help Haiti. It was really beautiful and many thanks to a great humanitarian, George Clooney, for organizing and bringing a great many of his friends to the event. (In addition to the musicians, countless super prominent film and TV actors answered pledge phone calls in LA and New York.) This is what our country is really all about.
Click on the little box in the far right bottom corner of each video for FULL SCREEN.
Amazing Performances All (Dave Matthews and Neil Young performing Hank Williams' Alone and Forsaken...Stevie Wonder performing Paul Simon's Bridge Over Troubled Water, Coldplay, Madonna(w/awesome gospel choir) performing Like a Prayer, Sting, Shakira, the Boss.....)
Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock & Keith Urban - Lean On Me (Bill Withers)
Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen Foster's Civil War song) has been sung by all the greats: Emmylou, Dylan, Cash, Nanci Griffith, JT, Bruce, and Ireland's Mary Black and Maura O'Connell among others. I was struck silent last night by Mary J. Blige. Wow! I'm not into R&B but will easily add my name to the list of her admirers - it is no wonder they call her the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul.
Christina Aguilera - Lift Me Up (Linda Perry-on piano)
Simply Sublime
Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
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