Fire Fight Australia was a fundraising benefit concert held on Sunday, 16 February 2020, as a means for raising funds for the national bushfire relief following the

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, known as the 'Black Summer'. It was held at

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. It ran for 10 hours and was broadcast live on television by the

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and

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. A related album by various artists, ''Artists Unite for Fire Fight: Concert for National Bushfire Relief'' was released by Sony in March.

Funds raised

The event was mainly organised by the Australian music industry spearheaded by Paul Dainty and the TEG Dainty music group. They aimed to keep the overhead costs as low as possible so that as much profit as possible would go the affiliated charities. Almost all of these costs were waived or heavily discounted. The event raised $9.85 million for bushfire relief.

Affiliated charities

* Rural and Regional fire services in affected states *

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Bushfire Appeal * Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR)

Performers and set list

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Lee Kernaghan Lee Kernaghan OAM (born 15 April 1964) is an Australian country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. Kernaghan has won four ARIA Awards and three APRA Awards, and has sold over two million albums, and as of 2021, has won 38 Golden Guitars ...

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Conrad Sewell Conrad Ignatius Mario Maximilian Sewell (born 31 March 1988) is an Australian singer and songwriter. He is best known for his vocals on Kygo's single "Firestone (song), Firestone" and his number-one single "Start Again (Conrad Sewell song), Sta ...

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Reception

The concert was the most watched program of the night on Australia's free to air multi channels and subscription channels, and the fourth most watched program overall, peaking at 4.7 million viewers.

''Artists Unite for Fire Fight''

A live charity album was released on 13 March 2020 by

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. The album was not released on streaming sites as a way to boost the funds raised. The album debuted at number one on the ARIA albums chart. Audio from Queen + Adam Lambert's setlist were included on their 2020 album Live Around the World

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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Funds raised

Affiliated charities

Performers and set list

Reception

''Artists Unite for Fire Fight''

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

See also

References