Update: ‘One Love Manchester’ benefit concert scheduled for June 4
MANCHESTER, U.K. (KUSI) — 6/1/2017 — Ariana Grande’s Manchester benefit concert was scheduled Wednesday to take place on June 4.
"One Love Manchester" will take place June 4 at the Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester," according to CNN.
Coldplay, Katy Perry, Pharrell, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan and Take That will also take the stage.
All proceeds from the show will go towards the "We Love Manchester Emergency Fund," in partnership with the British Red Cross and Manchester City Council.
5/30/2017 — Singer Ariana Grande confirmed Tuesday she will return to Manchester Sunday for a benefit concert almost two weeks after an attacker unleashed a deadly bomb onto a crowd of mostly teenagers leaving the singer’s concert.
Pop musicians Justin Beiber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams and others will join Ariana Grande for the "One Love Manchester" benefit concert at a separate concert arena from where suicide bomber, Salman Abedi killed 22 people and injured almost 50 others. Proceeds will go to an emergency fund that assists victims of the attack.
Related Link: Suicide bomber identified, man arrested in connection to Manchester bombing
"We won’t let this divide us. We won’t let hate win," Grande said in a statement after the attack. "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."
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) May 30, 2017
The United Kingdom has lowered their terrorism threat from "critical" to "severe" after a series of arrests in connection to a network of terrorism allegedly linked backed to Abedi. In total, 14 unidentified men have been arrested on suspicion of violating the U.K.’s Terrorism Act but have not been charged. Military personnel remained on standby if it becomes necessary, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said.
Related Link: Victims of the Manchester bombing
Tickets for the "One Love Manchester" concert will go on sale Thursday. For more information, click here. To donate to the victims of the Manchester bombing, visit redcross.org.uk.
