MUSIC LEGEND JIMMY PAGE BACK IN BEIJING TO LAUNCH “PEACE IS GREEN” LIVE CONCERT AND GLOBAL TV SPECIAL
January 12th, 2010Led Zeppelin music legend Jimmy Page will team up with other leading musicians in Beijing on January 13, 2010 for a celebrity launch briefing for The Show of Peace Concert, a multi-media music event to be staged in front of Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium on April 17, 2010 to promote world peace and green harmony through the universal language of music.
The global celebrity launch in January will mark a return to Beijing for guitarist Page, who was featured during the spectacular closing ceremony of last year’s Beijing Olympics at the Bird’s Nest.
The Show of Peace live global event, apart of a “peace is green” awareness campaign that will run for 365 days from its launch in Beijing in January, is the brainchild of US TV and music producer Rick Garson, whose company ZZYX Entertainment created a 5 concert worldwide TV series of Global Harmony Opera shows, The Divas in Beijing, as the Premier Official Cultural Events of the 2008 Olympics.
Garson has spent the last ten years planning an International Peace Concert with the support of World Leaders such as the United Nations and the Vatican, and was inspired by the public response to the Copenhagen Climate Change summit to confirm the global concert and live television special on April 17 – the week of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day.
A number of Chinese international organizations are partnering with Garson to create a global communication and support network to help drive world change. They include the Chinese Host Organization, Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, as well as China-based non-profit Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy (JUCCCE), UN NGO Pathways to Peace and Cultures of Peace Initiative, and the Captain Planet Foundation. A Show of Peace foundation will be established to administer funds raised through the concert and campaign to support peace and green initiatives around the world.
The Foundation’s board will include respected experts from the fields of peace building and green initiatives. China’s nationally-syndicated music radio network Hit FM is an official partner of The Show of Peace, and will broadcast the April 17 concert live to six major cities across the country including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
“Peace and the environment are totally connected – one cannot happen without the other,” said Garson, who has been back and forth to China since the Olympics. “After The Show of Peace Concert in April, we will produce a sequence of other events during the following year. The Show of Peace campaign will give the public the opportunity to show their passion for these vital causes, and will keep reminding politicians around the world about the public hunger for change.”
Garson added that his experience of the Beijing Olympics gave him the idea to stage The Show of Peace concert in China. “The passion and attitude of the Chinese people, and the dynamism and potential of this country, made me realise that this was the right place to stage an event as we watch the transformation of Red China to “Green China” right before our eyes.”
Garson said he has put together “a dream team” of international music and TV industry professionals to create The Show of Peace Concert, including manager and producer Trudy Green (Aerosmith, Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger), and producer Greg Sills (Live 8, Live Earth, and Billboard Music Awards).
Please visit the official website: showofpeace.com

