Nelly Furtado is going to. In front of thousands of people. Tonight's the night.
You can do it, too.
Tonight at 8pm it will be Earth Hour - an hour during which everyone on the planet will be asked to turn off their lights, please - and Nelly Furtado - who is, in addition to being Canada's favorite semi-skanky pop singer cum single mother, is our ambassador for Earth Hour (not as cool a gig as Angie's humanitarian biz for the UN, but still, you gotta start somewhere) - is going to kick off the hour with a free! concert! in Toronto. ("Turn Out The Lights"? GET IT?)
The partners of Toronto’s Earth Hour today announced
that multi-platinum Grammy and Juno Award-winner, and Canada’s own,
Nelly Furtado will join Earth Hour as the first Canadian Earth Hour
Ambassador. She will also perform a free concert at Nathan Phillips
Square on March 29 to celebrate Earth Hour.
As an Earth Hour Ambassador and an advocate for the environment,
Nelly Furtado will play an unplugged concert at the Earth Hour
community event, starting at 7:30 p.m. The organizers are taking steps
to make the event as carbon-neutral as possible - including powering
the event with green, renewable energy from Bullfrog Power. People from
across the GTA are invited to attend.
That's awesome that they're making it carbon-neutral and unplugged and all, but I still don't get how it's going to be a particularly effective concert with all the lights out. I mean, will there be candles? Isn't that a fire hazard? Or will Nelly just light everything up with the glow of her own fabulousness?
Whatever. Do it for the children.
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