Billie Eilish, Sheryl Crow and Peter Gabriel are simply three of many musicians stepping as much as protest gun violence by becoming a member of a coalition known as Artist for Motion to Stop Gun Violence.
With a mission to finish the epidemic of shootings in the US by encouraging volunteer work, donations and voter turnout, the coalition will formally launch Sept. 22 with the primary of a number of stay occasions at New York’s Irving Plaza. Per Selection, this primary occasion will function a stay efficiency by Bush together with a number of particular company. Its function will probably be to boost consciousness — not only for Artist for Motion, but additionally for Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit based by the households of a number of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty capturing victims.
Additionally a part of Artist for Motion: Nile Rodgers, Bootsy Collins, Sofi Tukker, Rufus Wainwright, the Pixies, LP, Outdated Crow Drugs Present, Halestorm, Rozzi, Tedeschi Vans Band, Little Huge City’s Karen Fairchild and extra. Their chief is musician Mark Barden, whose son Daniel was certainly one of 26 victims killed within the Sandy Hook capturing.
“After my son Daniel was murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty, I put my profession as an expert guitarist on maintain to commit myself to stopping gun violence,” Barden stated in an announcement. “Please be part of me and a whole bunch of different artists, musicians, actors, athletes, and folks such as you to lastly finish this mindless violence.”
“As a neighborhood of artists, we have to band collectively to make widespread sense change,” Eilish added.
In response to the Gun Violence Archive, the U.S. has seen 488 whole mass shootings in 2023 thus far, and that’s with 4 months nonetheless left to go till the tip of the yr. Additionally on the time of publication, 29,520 folks within the nation have died in gun violence-related incidents this yr alone.
Discover tickets for Bush’s kickoff Artist for Motion efficiency at Irving Plaza right here.
