January 14, 2025
Main report labels have canceled their Grammy Week occasions, selecting to redirect funds to help aid efforts for the LA wildfires.
Regardless of the continued wildfires raging by way of Southern California, the 67th annual Grammy Awards are nonetheless set to happen on Feb. 2. However Common Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group have introduced they won’t be internet hosting any occasions to rejoice the event.
On Jan. 14, Sony Music Group joined Common Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group in canceling its Grammy Week get together, opting as an alternative to redirect the funds to help native aid efforts, Billboard reported. It got here in the future after the Recording Academy confirmed that this 12 months’s Grammy Awards would proceed as deliberate, regardless of the wildfires affecting numerous Los Angeles residents, together with stars and business professionals throughout music, movie, and tv.
Shortly after the Recording Academy’s announcement, UMG launched its personal assertion canceling all Grammy-related occasions, together with its artist showcase and after-party. The corporate introduced it will as an alternative “redirect the sources that might have been used for these occasions to help these affected by the wildfires.”
“Our deepest gratitude goes to the primary responders and emergency personnel, who proceed to carry out heroically,” Common stated in a press release.
“L.A. is dwelling to so many people. We’re dedicated to serving to and supporting the music neighborhood, our artists, our groups and the folks of Los Angeles get by way of this horrific episode.”
Inside 24 hours of UMG’s announcement, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group additionally introduced the cancellation of their deliberate Grammy occasions. Together with UMG’s aid efforts for these impacted by the wildfires, Warner Music Group introduced its canceled Grammy Week get together to as an alternative redirect funds to wildfire aid efforts and assist these affected by the devastation.
It follows Warner Music Group’s earlier pledge of $1 million to help fireplace aid and rebuilding efforts within the Los Angeles space by way of its Warner Music Group/Blavatnik Household Basis Social Justice Fund.
“Our hearts exit to everybody affected by the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles,” Recording Academy and MusiCares CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and Tammy Harm, chair of the board of trustees, stated in a press release. “This metropolis is our dwelling, and we mourn the lack of life and destruction which have come to it in current days.”
“In shut coordination with native authorities to make sure public security and accountable use of space sources, the 67th Grammy Awards telecast on CBS on Feb. 2 will proceed as deliberate,” they continued. “This 12 months’s present, nevertheless, will carry a renewed sense of function: elevating further funds to help wildfire aid efforts and honoring the bravery and dedication of first responders who threat their lives to guard ours.”
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