KIM!?!?!? Why are you leaving us dangling like that??? What have you heard? Q107 hasn't mentioned U2 for awhile...so maybe they got in trouble for it?
Here's what the CBC is saying:
TORONTO - The Rolling Stones will headline a nine-hour music event to boost the SARS-tainted image of Toronto, in what organizers are billing as the greatest concert of the century.
"People are going to gasp when they see the lineup," Toronto Liberal MP Dennis Mills told ArtsCanada, adding that an official announcement will be made Tuesday morning.
Mills hopes to attract 350,000 people to the event, with half of the tickets sold to the U.S. Tickets will be priced at $19.95.
Mills refused to comment on who will join the Stones for the July 30 concert, only saying that talent will come from across Canada, Europe and the United States.
"This is the concert of the century. I can tell you right now you will not challenge that once there's the formal announcement."
The event, which will run from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m., will be staged at the Downsview Centre in Toronto - the same venue where the Pope held World Youth Day celebrations last summer.
"This is to antidote the international image out there that we are a leper colony," Mills said.
Proceeds, after expenses, and one dollar from every ticket sold will go to health care and hospitality workers.
The government will chip in $3.5 million to cover infrastructure expenses, with the private sector covering the rest of the $11 million price tag.
Mills said one goal is to fill the 95,000 hotel and motel spaces from Niagara to Oshawa during the event.
Mills said the event will also feature a huge barbecue to help promote Canadian beef in the wake of the discovery of mad cow disease in an Alberta cow.
I too am on a huge soapbox about Arts Funding. I work for the National Ballet School, and I also used to work for the National Ballet of Canada, and I was Director of Development at a Baroque Opera Co. called Opera Atelier.
