MONTREAL – Bell Media is backing a star-studded concert in Montreal next month in support of international advocacy organization Global Citizen and its fight against three of the world’s deadliest diseases.
Global Citizen: A Concert To End Aids, Tuberculosis And Malaria is scheduled for Saturday, September 17 at the Bell Centre in Montreal with special guests Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Bill Gates, plus performances by Usher, Half Moon Run, Metric, Grimes, and Charlotte Cardin (pictured). The free-ticketed concert is co-hosted by Énergie Montréal 94.3’s Patrick Langlois, Africa Rising Foundation co-founder Kweku Mandela, media personality Maripier Morin, and TV and radio personality George Stroumboulopoulos.
The event will be broadcast live to Bell Fibe TV subscribers on TV1, channel 1158, on September 17 beginning at 7:00 PM. The concert will also be will be the first-ever livestream at iHeartRadio.ca, and will also be streamed on additional Bell Media Radio websites.
“Bell Media is proud to support Global Citizen through our participation in this important concert,” said Randy Lennox, Bell Media’s president of broadcasting and content, in the news release. “It is our hope that through the Bell Fibe TV1 broadcast and iHeartRadio livestream that we will be able to engage and inform Canadians about the Global Fund and its mission to wipe out AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.”
Ten thousand free tickets to the concert will be given out to activists who join the Global Citizen movement and take action in support of the Global Fund. The Global Fund is a partnership between governments, civil society, and the private sector that raises and invests nearly US$4 billion a year to support programs in countries and communities in need.
