LED ZEPPELIN Guitar Legend Jimmy Page To Perform At Rio De Janiero Benefit Saturday
November 25, 2009, 14 years ago
According to LED ZEPPELIN fan-site Lemon Squeezings, guitar legend Jimmy Page is said to be playing in a Rio De Janiero school auditorium this Saturday, November 28, at a benefit for one of his charities. According to a translation of the Portugese-language O Globo, tickets to a concert featuring Page and other acts are selling for upwards of $100. The article says Page would be performing along with some school bands and acts called Pepeu Gomes, George Israel and Kid Abelha, the article says.
The intimate event would be Page's first concert appearance of the year. In 2008, Page played a much more high-profile event at the Olympics, and also joined John Paul Jones in sitting in with the Foo Fighters one night in London. Those have been his only onstage appearances since the Led Zeppelin reunion concert on December 10, 2007.
Casa Jimmy, a shelter for abandoned street children in Rio de Janiero, opened 11 years ago as a program of one of the charities Page supports, Task Brazil. A source familiar with Page's charity work tells LedZeppelinNews.com this fundraiser couldn't have come at a better time given a current need for financial support.
