India will host the next Live Earth concert to raise funds for lighting homes with solar energy in places where people do not have access to electricity. Live Earth concert has become something of a global movement with its mission to use the “power of entertainment” to “ignite global movements” on environmental issues.
The concert will be held in India's financial capital Mumbai on December 7, 2008. The event will feature U.S. rocker Jon Bon Jovi and Bollywood's biggest superstar, Amitabh Bachchan and environmental advocates and many other international celebrities. The concert bash will take place at Andheri Sports Complex in Mumbai.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has said that India should lead the world by committing to produce all of its new energy from clean and renewable sources within the next 10 years.
The proceeds from the concert will go to the "Light A Billion Lives campaign," supported by Nobel Prize-winner Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the United Nation's Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Emmy-winning concert producer Kevin Wall disclosed that the creative director for Live Earth India would be film director and producer Shekhar Kapur. Organisers said they would set up giant screens and distribute televisions in remote villagers for the concert.
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