A Concert for Hurricane Relief was an hour-long, music and celebrity driven live benefit broadcast, sponsored by the NBC Universal Television Group, in response to the hurricane Katrina tragedy in USA, in 2005. Simulcast from the New York studios of NBC located in 30 Rockefeller Plaza, on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, PAX on September 2, 2005. The benefit was hosted by NBC’s Matt Lauer. Image File history File linksMetadata A_Concert_for_Hurricane_Relief_logo. ... A benefit concert is a concert featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis. ... NBC Universal is a media and entertainment conglomerate formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electrics NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, part of Vivendi Universal. ... Hurricane Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in American history. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NBC, formerly called the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Lower Plaza at Rockefeller Center. ... MSNBC (a portmanteau of Microsoft and NBC) is a 24-hour cable news channel in the United States. ... CNBC (until 1991 the Consumer News and Business Channel) is a group of cable and satellite television Business news channels from the U.S., owned and operated by NBC Universal, a joint venture of General Electric and Vivendi Universal. ... The Latin word pax means peace. It is also the name of the goddess of Peace in Roman mythology. ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (246th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... NBC, formerly called the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Matt Lauer on WNBCs Live at Five in 1994. ...

A Concert for Hurricane Relief, was hastily pulled together after New Orleans native musician Harry Connick Jr called NBC Universal chairman and CEO Bob Wright personally to offer his services and encourage the network to embrace relief efforts. It's most notable moment, however, ws not musical, but rather rapper Kanye West's controversial statement that President George W. Bush "doesn't care about black people." New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... The term native as an adjective or noun has the following meanings. ... Harry Connick Jr. ... NBC Universal is a media and entertainment conglomerate formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electrics NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, part of Vivendi Universal. ... Kanye West (first name pronounced //) (born Kanye Omari West, June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American hip hop producer and rapper from Chicago, Illinois. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ...

The benefit generated $50 million and was watched on television by approximately 8.5 million viewers.

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Musical guests & presenters

• Matt Lauer intro
• Harry Connick Jr (piano) and Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) with Victor Goines (clarinet), Lucien Barbarin (trombone) and Charles Neville (sax) - performing "Bourbon Street Parade"
• Hilary Swank - presenter
• A piece on what the hurricane did to New Orleans
• Tim McGraw - talks with Matt Lauer - performing "More Power to Ya"
• Richard Gere - presenter
• Tim McGraw - performing "Something Like That"
• Guitar auction starts
• Eriq La Salle and Lindsay Lohan - presenters
• A piece, narrated by Faith Hill
• Faith Hill - performing "There Will Come a Time"
• Glenn Close and John Goodman - presenters
• Aaron Neville - performing "Louisiana 1927"
• New York Governor George Pataki, gave a check for $2.5 million to the Red Cross represented by Bonnie McElveen-Hunter
• A piece by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough
• Harry Connick Jr talking with Matt Lauer
• A piece narrated by Harry Connick Jr
• Harry Connick Jr (piano, voice) with Wynton Marsalis (trumpet) - performing "Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans"
• Mike Myers and Kanye West - presenters
• Chris Tucker - presenter
• Aaron Neville - performing "Amazing Grace"
• Marcia Gay Harden - presenter
• Richard D. Fairbank, CEO of Capital One, sponsor of the concert, speaking.
• A piece, narrated by Jimmy Smits
• Claire Danes - presenter
• A piece by Brian Williams
• Faith Hill - performing "Precious Lord, Take My Hand"
• Leonardo DiCaprio - presenter
• Matt Lauer comes on to encourage viewers to contribute
• Concert's finishing number lead by Harry Connick Jr, where close to everyone performed "When the Saints Go Marching In"

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Harry Connick Jr

Harry Connick Jr's voice was hoarse when he performed at the benefit, after he had been on the air several times live from New Orleans in the last few days, talking about his city, trying to raise awareness of all the help the city and the people there was in need for. Harry Connick Jr. ...

Auction

A Gibson guitar autographed by the performers and presenters was auctioned off to raise additional funds. The guitar sold for $30,900. This article is about the American musical instrument manufacturer. ...

External references

• American Red Cross press release
• MSNBC article
• Stars React To Kanye's Comments at accesshollywood.com