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7.7.07 - Live Earth Concerts Broadcast at Toronto Greenfest

Posted by Tatiana / July 4, 2007

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This coming Saturday a huge musical and environmental event is taking place: over 100 of some of the world's most popular musicians and bands will give Live Earth concerts all over the globe to promote awareness of the global warming and inspire folks to do something about it. If that sounds exciting, but your plans for the weekend don't happen to include a jaunt to Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Kyoto or any other concert locations, the next best thing has to be the live broadcast at Yonge-Dundas Square, between noon and 8 p.m., at the Green Toronto Streetfest. Isn't it nice when those giant screens are used for something other than ads, like these concerts or sci-fi flicks?

In addition to the broadcast, you'll get a chance to find out about environmentally-friendly products and services that are available locally, and learn about ways you can help fight the climate crisis. Yonge St. will be closed between Dundas and Shuter to make room for the festivities, so hop on the TTC or your bike - and see you at the green party!

Image: City of Toronto Green Toronto Streetfest poster

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Hans Eich / July 9, 2007 at 11:38 am
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I worked at the Live Earth live broadcast at Yonge Dundas Square this weekend and I must say Toronto has yet again dropped the ball on that one. I've had to explain to so many people: "well... err... there is not live bands here" - "Well that's lame!"

CTV provided the live broadcast and was supposed to show it on the big screens (as promised by this blog article), that didn't happen. Starting at around 9pm the live satellite feed was lost and CTV started playing recaps of previous artists. What happened to the live speach of Al Gore that they had announced? Well, the feed was lost. The reunion of the Smashing Pumpkins? Sorry, the live feed was lost. Someone finally figured out at CTV they can simply usee the live MSN feed...

Keeping in mind that Toronto was a runner up for a concert location, we should have at least had some live bands (even if they were not broadcasted) at Yonge Dundas Square.
melody / July 9, 2007 at 02:49 pm
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not only that, I know of a local artist who had some CDs prepared for the live earth event to hand out to people and the staff tried to stop them, because they hadn't paid the city.

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