Green Day Related Projects - Charity Events and Songs

Charity Events and Songs

• Green Day performed at the 1999 Bridge School Benefit.
• Armstrong was part of an ensemble of musicians that sang The Beatles' "Across the Universe" at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards as part of a tsunami relief production. The band also pledged to give the profits from the downloading of their song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" to the tsunami relief fund.
• Green Day performed at the Live 8 concert on July 2, 2005, in Berlin, Germany, where they played "Holiday," "American Idiot," "Minority," and a rendition of Queen's "We Are the Champions."
• The band also contributed a prerecorded performance to the Hurricane Katrina Benefit relief event on September 10, 2005 from their performance the prior week at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The televised portion (shown on MTV and VH1) showed the trio performing their single "Wake Me Up When September Ends."
• The band used to write songs in People's Park and has generously supported Food Not Bombs (supposedly $25,000 to each of several organizations).
• On September 7, 2006, Greenday.com announced that Green Day would work with rock band U2 to record The Saints Are Coming, originally by The Skids. The proceeds would benefit Music Rising, an organization that replaces instruments musicians lost in Hurricane Katrina's wake. The song reached number one in Ireland and number two in the UK charts.
• Green Day joined forces with the Natural Resources Defense Council to fight for the environment.
• Green Day had an auction for an autographed bike, the money is going to charity.
• Green Day covered John Lennon's song Working Class Hero on the CD Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur which helps Amnesty International to focus attention on the urgent catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan. The CD was released June 12, 2007
• Billie Joe, Jason White and their families helped to build homes in New Orleans (April 2007) and send in daily updates to Green Day's myspace.
• Tré Cool hosts the annual Music in Schools Today (MuST) golf tournament to benefit (San Francisco) Bay Area schools' music programs. Mike Dirnt also participates.
• Billie Joe participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon which aired on several networks on September 10, 2010. Near the middle of the telethon, Billie Joe performed "Wake Me Up When September Ends," the Green Day song he wrote about his father's death from esophageal cancer.