Big Apple to host Farm Aid concert
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NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters Life!) - New York will play host to Farm Aid, a benefit concert to help family farms, singer Willie Nelson announced on Monday.
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Madonna, Diana Ross, Maroon 5 and Mary J. Blige are among the performers who are joining the NBC Universal benefit special "Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope." The program, which will benefit the American Red Cross, will air Saturday on NBC, and NBC cable properties, Telemundo and PAX.
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Ottawa -- Agriculture Minister Andy Mitchell is meeting with his US counterpart today in New York to lobby for an end to the costly mad-cow crisis, which began 15 months ago with the discovery of single case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on a ranch
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Thousands of people will gather on a hillside farm this weekend in Ancramdale, N.Y., about two and a half hours north of New York City, to hear and play bluegrass.
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FARMERS are being invited to find out about con
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New York is better known for tall buildings and crowded streets than farms but a group of environmentalists say Gotham&#39;s rooftops could be used to grow enough vegetables to feed the entire city and reduce dependence on far-away farms.
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A concert is to be staged in south-east London to help raise funds for the fire-ravaged Cutty Sark.
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Government officials, environmental advocates and a representative of a luxury co-op building have agreed to meet tomorrow to discuss new lodgings for Manhattan&#39;s most famous homeless couple
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A couple of New York producers have plans to bring a concert version of âJerry Springer: The Operaâ to, of all places, Carnegie Hall.
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New York&#39;s mayor said Tuesday that the CMA Awards will showcase the city to a whole new audience. Kix Brooks joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg to announce that the event will come to New York City for a one-year engagement in 2005.
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Arts & entertainment: Â£750,000 spent on works to avoid weather havoc as organisers expect biggest ever gathering at farm site.
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Fans braved cold, wet weather to be part of the 19th annual Farm Aid concert held on Saturday, which included performances by founders Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 21--Well-placed federal money could help San Joaquin Valley farmers provide food while caring for the land, speakers told two congressmen Tuesday.
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Pop star Madonna hosted a celebrity-studded event on Wednesday on the lawns of the United Nations to aid Malawi orphans, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and -- controversially -- to inaugurate a new Gucci store.
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Twenty years after the all-star charity single &quot;Do They Know It&#39;s Christmas?&quot; raised money to provide famine relief to Ethiopia and inspired the star-studded Live Aid benefit concert, some of today&#39;s top British acts plan to record a new version of the
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LOS ANGELES  - Madonna, Diana Ross,  Maroon 5 and Mary J. Blige are among the performers who are  joining the NBC Universal benefit special "Tsunami Aid: A  Concert of Hope." The program, which will benefit the American  Red Cross, will air Saturday on NBC, and NBC cable properties,  Telemundo and PAX.
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It's hard to find enough green space here for a soccer field, let alone a farm. So why is Farm Aid coming to this concrete-covered city known for crime, poverty and political corruption rather than a place known for corn, beans and hogs?