organised by music industry figure Michael Gudinski as well as Aussie rocker Jimmy Barnes.
Barnes leads the stellar line-up of performers, which also includes Delta Goodrem, Ben Lee, Birds Of Tokyo with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Courtney Barnett, Ian Moss, Kevin Parker , Missy Higgins, Paul Kelly, The Rubens, The Wiggles, Vance Joy and Vika & Linda Bull.More artists, as well as the concert’s hosts, will be announced in coming days.
“Throughout history music has helped people through times of hardship,” said Mr Gudinski, the CEO of Frontier Touring and chairman of the Mushroom Group.is about uniting Australians and New Zealanders through the power of music in a time that we all need a bit of hope and happiness.” The event is not a fundraising endeavour, but rather a way of thanking workers across various fields who have helped fight the coronavirus pandemic.Being held on Anzac Day, the show will invoke the Anzac spirit, also paying tribute to military workers and those who have fought for our country.is a salute from Australia and New Zealand’s music communities to everyone serving our nations under lockdown,” Nine’s head of content production and development Adrian Swift said.
“And it’s an opportunity for everyone watching to say thanks too just by texting us as we go to air this very different Anzac Day.”
Can diggers have 1 day Disgraceful,disrespectful,bad bad taste!!! I will not be watching it
Any event held on ANZAC Day where the Diggers aren't first in line for thanks and gratitude is out of line and quite disgraceful, however deserving the other cause.
How disrespectful! Lest we forget!
The headline should read: The biggest attention whores from the music industry have been starved for attention during iso and have decided to hijack ANZAC day to get thier fix using the fake cover of saluting frontline workers!! You're welcome.
Great idea, wrong day. Respect those who died and were damaged in war - 1 day per year. Don’t mix special days it detracts from both
Bad taste
Totally disrespectful to the ANZAC Diggers!
cry for those who died but condemn the incompetent inbred pommie aristocrat who killed 100,000 at Gallipoli and injured a quarter of a million more. Churchill.
JimmyBarnes I realise you're trying to do something good here, but ANZAC day is not the day to do this. The sacrifice made by those men and women was absolute and should not be used to piggy back any other cause.
The Anzacs would laugh at what we are now calling the Front Line.... at the real front line hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers died ghastly deaths far away from home. Whilst we all appreciate what our nurses and doctors do every day, it is not even close to being the same.
Really? On ANZAC Day? Very disrespectful.
You mean for my kids who are nurses and were sent home because the hospitals were closed for elective surgery for the scaredemic? Don't worry I already appreciate my kids. Hope no one turns up for your virtue concert. Will you give one for the unemployed and economic deaths?
ANZAC Day is for the Anzacs & remembering the sacrifices they made so we can live free lives. It is not to be hijacked for another cause. I will not be watching the concert.
Get a grip. 75 people have died and those numbers are even questionable. They is and never has been a frontline. Another opportunity to fleece hard earned cash from the duped sheep
Funny that, I thought Anzac Day was day especially to honour the diggers of past. You've got another 364 days to choose from to 'appreciate' the health workers of this scamdemic. Disgraceful
Haven't we been through enough misery?