U2 [ tickets ]'s Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen--along with Courtney Love, Scarlett Johansson, Laurie Anderson and many others--are scheduled to appear during an Oct. 4 benefit at New York's Carnegie Hall. The event aims to raise awareness for the AIDS charity (RED) and to raise funds for The Global Fund, whose mission is to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Africa.

Additional guests billed for the event event, dubbed "Hal Willner Presents: An Evening with Gavin Friday [ tickets ] and Friends," include Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), Elizabeth Ashley, Andrea Corr, Flo & Eddie, Joel Grey, Bill Frisell, Guggi, Lydia Lunch, Patrick McCabe, Maria McKee, Shane MacGawan, Eric Mingus, JG Thirwell, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright and Chloe Webb.

Gavin Friday, a childhood friend of Bono, is an Irish singer, composer and painter, and founding member of the goth-rock group The Virgin Prunes. Willner has produced albums for Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, and has assembled tribute albums and live events saluting artists like Leonard Cohen, Thelonius Monk, Tim Buckley, Edgar Allen Poe and Marquis de Sade.

Tickets went on sale today (9/16) via CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800, carnegiehall.org and the Carnegie Hall box office.