Ariana Grande will lead a star-studded charity concert in Manchester on Sunday, honoring and raising funds for victims of last week’s bombing, the pop star’s publicist said on Tuesday.
The concert will take place at the Trafford cricket ground in Manchester, where Beyoncé performed last July.
Grande will be supported by such acts as Miley Cyrus, Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Usher, Niall Horan, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams and Take That.
Madonna is also rumored to be a possible performer, The Sun reported.
A suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured 116 at Manchester Arena following the Florida native’s concert on May 22.
Show proceeds will benefit the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund, organized by the Manchester City Council and the British Red Cross.
Concert promoters got the blessing of most — but not all — of the victims’ families, according to Manchester’s top cop.
“When the idea of the concert came up, my first reaction was, we need to speak to the families of the victims and see what they feel,” Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins told the BBC on Tuesday.
“It’s fair to say that the majority of them are very much in favor, there are some that clearly aren’t and that is absolutely understandable.”
In a statement after the attack, Grande said “we won’t let this divide us. We won’t let hate win. Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder and to live more kindly and generously than we did before.”
Fans who attended that deadly concert will get free tickets to Sunday’s show, concert producers said.
With Post wires
