Fight Aids, Free Tickets to Sarah McLachlan? click quick

Hey Indyish readers, you can help win a pair of tickets to see Sarah McLachlan, Avril Levigne Angelique Kidjo, Corneille, Marie Mai, Nikki Yanofsky and special guest DJ Dino Lenny November 28, 2007 at the Montreal Bell Center just by clicking on this link:

www.uniteagainstaidsconcert.ca

That’s it.

All we have to do is send 100 hits and we’ll have a pair of tickets to give away here on the blog, which we enjoy. It’ll be sort of like our Osheaga ticket contest, if you remember.

It’s interesting to be on the receiving end of groups like this United Against Aids Concert trying to “tap into” the “blog scene” with give aways and marketing approaches. So far, though the feeling is curious, I don’t mind the tapping. We exist because we like to pass on information and make good connections, and the Unicef children’s campaign is a heartfelt thing.

This concert marks the beginning of an annual series in multiple cities intended to keep a loud hollar going in the public ear about AIDS. I always wonder with these things how much money from the concerts goes to the charity (I asked the PR person who contacted me about the concert, if I hear anything back I’ll post it as a comment), and how much relative energy goes into awareness campaigns versus action campaigns, but maybe those are just my cynical background mudderings. Meanwhile, an unfathomable number of people die and kids are left orphans daily all of the world because of the AIDS virus.

This UNICEF campaign with the concerts claims world AIDS day for the children, aims to prevent transmission, care for the sick and put on a good show. Tough to see that as a bad combo eh? So click quick and we’ll give those tickets away in some groovy/rabble rousing fashion.

The goal of this five-year campaign is to ensure that the next generation of
children in developing countries are AIDS-free. The campaign’s most urgent aim
is to achieve measurable progress for children based on internationally agreed
goals in four key result areas (the four P’s):

* prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission
* provide pediatric treatment
* prevent infection among adolescents and young people
* protect and support children affected by HIV/AIDS

Check the site out, www.uniteagainstaidsconcert.ca, let me know what you think, will the concert help achieve these 4 objectives? What you know about how these types of concerts work- Do the acts get paid? do the venues take a rental fee? Do these events increase donations to the organization? Sarah McLachlan seems the type of person who would only do these events well researched, but that may be the little 13 year old fan deep inside me talking. For the truth? Maybe you can try at the back door man…=)