Concerts mark 9/11 memorial.SIMULTANEOUS concerts on both sides of the Atlantic were being held today to mark the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. After performances featuring musicians who lost loved ones in the atrocity, audiences in London and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of will join the artists in a rendition of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's classic Let It Be. More than 200 free concerts have been organised across the world on the seventh anniversary of the attacks. Almost 3,000 people, including 67 Britons, were killed when terrorists hijacked aircraft and flew them into New York's World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. London's concert will take place in Grosvenor Square at the same time as performers take to the stage in the British Memorial Garden The British Memorial Garden is currently (2005) under construction in Hanover Square in downtown Manhattan. It commemorates the 67 British victims of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. External links
Performers in London will include Coventry singer/ songwriter Rob Halligan, whose father died in the World Trade Centre. Singer Kris Buckle, the London Welsh Chorale chorale (kōrăl`, –räl`), any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in and the South African opera singer Siphiwo Ntshebe are also on the bill. CAPTION(S): HORROR... the 9/11. attacks on the Twin Towers |
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