Green Day will headline United Nations’ backed global climate concert in San Francisco

Inexperienced Day will headline a United Nations Human Rights-backed international local weather live performance on Tuesday (Apr 2) on the famed Fillmore in San Francisco.

The intimate occasion, which is co-hosted by the Recording Academy, goals to carry consideration to the inequalities exasperated by local weather change.

Extremely Q, another rock band fronted by Inexperienced Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s son Jakob Hazard, will open.

Proceeds from the live performance will go to United Nations Human Rights local weather justice initiatives and a MusiCares local weather fund to learn musicians affected by local weather change.

The Proper Right here, Proper Now International Local weather Alliance will honour Inexperienced Day for his or her “long-standing dedication to social justice and environmental causes,” in accordance with a press launch.

“As world famend artists and activists, Inexperienced Day continues to leverage its main affect and platform to carry consciousness to the impression of local weather change on the folks and the surroundings,” Volker Turk, the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a press release.

“The United Nations was based in San Francisco virtually 80 years in the past to safeguard human rights and dignity from disaster and tragedy. It is just becoming that we’re again in San Francisco.”

“Music is one among humanity’s best sources. It strikes the world,” Harvey Mason jr, CEO of the Recording Academy, added. “And we’re grateful for Inexperienced Day’s longstanding dedication to selling social justice.”

Tickets will develop into obtainable for buy on Friday at 12 pm PDT by way of Ticketmaster.