Watch Elton John ‘Madison Square Garden 2000’ on YouTube 7/31, a Fundraiser for the Elton John Aids Foundation (ft. Billy Joel, Mary J. Blige and More)

Rock Cellar Magazine Staffon July 30, 2020Categories:Latest News
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As he has been doing for a few weeks now, Sir Elton John will continue his weekly Classic Concert Series of archival live performance uploads on YouTube this Friday, July 31.

The programming scheduled for the latest installment in the series, a fundraising effort for the Elton John Aids Foundation, is drawn from two nights of music from the legendary musician at Madison Square Garden in New York City from the year 2000.

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The shows featured special appearances by Billy Joel, Mary J. Blige, Bryan Adams, Ronan Keating, Anastacia and Kiki Dee, and looks pretty entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr7Wb0JJq0M

The performance video will go up on the official Elton John YouTube channel Friday, July 31 at 3 p.m. EDT/12 p.m. PDT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gykLebFoK1s

As for the charitable intention of the Classic Concert Series on YouTube:

Bringing you six monumental concerts from Elton John’s archive available digitally for the first time ever. The Elton John: Classic Concert Series is running in support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund to continue HIV prevention and care for the most vulnerable people around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are 37 million people living with HIV around the world and we cannot lose the gains we’ve made to end the AIDS epidemic during this time. Please consider donating via the blue Donate button if you can. Thank you. To find out more, visit www.ejaf.org If you are unable to donate through our platform but would like to contribute to the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund, please visit https://www.ejaf.org/donate to make a life-saving contribution.

Once it premieres, the Madison Square Garden concert film will be available on Elton’s YouTube page for seven days — so don’t wait forever to watch it!

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