Alanis Morissette tops bill at Canadian benefit

Alanis Morissette will headline Canada's upcoming Music Without Borders Live benefit concert, an event that will also feature some of the singer's fellow Canadian artists, including the Tragically Hip, Our Lady Peace, Bruce Cockburn and others.

Set to take place at Toronto's Air Canada Centre on Sunday (10/21), the event is being held to raise money for the United Nations' humanitarian effort in Afghanistan. Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster in Canada, and all ticket proceeds will be donated to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, UNICEF and the World Food Program, according to a press release. (Ticketmaster is liveDaily's parent company.)

Canada's music television channel, MuchMusic, plans to air a live broadcast of the event.

Late last month, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a global appeal for $584 million to help provide assistance for the projected 7.5 million Afghanistan citizens who will need "outside aid to survive," according to the UN's website.

Morissette is finishing work on her next album, on which the song "Utopia" will appear. A streaming version of that track is currently available at Maverick Records' Alanis Morissette webpage. Morissette released the song about two weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks "in the spirit of wanting to offer comfort to everyone who is grieving, with my experiencing my own grief alongside them," according to a statement on the singer's official website.

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