Samoa benefit concerts raise $344,000

Published: 6:32PM Friday November 20, 2009 Source: NZPA

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Benefit concerts involving top New Zealand performers have raised more than $344,000 to aid Samoa following the devastating tsunami and earthquake in September.

The concerts which toured several New Zealand cities featured artists including Tim and Neil Finn, Dave Dobbyn, Scribe, Bic Runga and Savage.

The I Love the Islands Benefit Concert NZ tour raised $344,180.

Organisers were donating $50,000 each to the hardest hit villages Lalomanu and Poutasi, with the rest of the proceeds to go to the Samoa Tsunami 2009 Appeal Charitable Trust.

The New Zealand government has donated more than $12 million to the cause.

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