Country-Rock Stars To Play Benefit For Landmine Victims

09/22/1998 8:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Mac Randall

(9/22/98, 6 p.m. PDT) - Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, and Buddy & Julie Miller will be among the country-rock stars performing at a Washington, D.C. concert to raise awareness and money for assistance to landmine victims.

The concert, which will benefit the Campaign For A Landmine-Free World, takes place Oct. 9 at the Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Tickets for the concert are available through TicketMaster for $22.50 and $33.50. Proceeds will go toward a comprehensive program providing rehabilitation services for those who have been injured by landmines (a worldwide number that is currently estimated in the tens of thousands) and helping the international effort to remove mines.

Besides the aforementioned artists appearing at the concert, a number of other entertainers have joined the landmine campaign, which was originally started by the Vietnam Veterans Of America Foundation. The list includes Boyz II Men, Jackson Browne, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Bruce Cockburn, Harry Connick Jr., Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Sinead O'Connor and Bruce Springsteen.

-- Mac Randall, New York