11.7.2007 6:48 AM

Nobel Peace Prize Concert Will Fete Gore and IPCC

Tommy Lee Jones to Host Musical Extravaganza

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By Dan Shapley

It won't be the first time musical luminaries have come together to recognize the importance of global warming, but at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, the audience will be a bit more focused.

The Nobel Peace Prize winners, Al Gore and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will be treated to a show hosted by Tommy Lee Jones, Gore's old college roommate, and a squadron of socially conscious rock stars, including Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox, Earth Wind & Fire, Melissa Etheridge, KT Tunstall, Juanes, Junoon, and Nick Davies and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.

Tickets to the show, in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 11, cost as much as $167 (U.S.). But it is to be broadcast on television. Details about stations in the U.S. are yet to come.

The last time these artists came together was for Live Earth, Gore's seven-continent conscious-raising concert. Given that hundreds of scientists in the IPCC hail from all over the world, the Oslo concert's audience will be as broad, if not as numerous.

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