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Videos from Live Earth in South Africa and around the world have been posted online. Watch them here.

Live Earth concert in South Africa is being streamed online. Watch it here! Soweto Gospel choir is on now with Danny K.

The line up in SA includes:

Angelique Kidjo

Vusi Mahlasela

Zola

Joss Stone

UB 40

Baaba Mal

The Parlotones

For American fare, its on the Bravo channel.

Live Earth’s theme is SOS - Save Our Selves. The success of such Live 8 type concerts is debatable, but for a world music lover…i am bobbing my head and soaking in all the music.

See what Dan Deluca at Pop Matters has to say about Live Earth…gem of the day IMO, climate change and Nelly in one paragraph!

…Live Earth will include concerts on every principal land mass on the planet, including Antarctica (the ninth site), where a low-down house band of British scientists called Nunatak will no doubt prove themselves to be a bunch of supremely chill dudes.

Which all sounds pretty cool. But Live Earth - subtitled the Concerts for a Climate in Crisis - exists, of course, to highlight the opposite.

Namely, that it’s getting hot in herre - though, for some reason, Nelly is not on the list of performers. And that, as Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” argues, global warming - or if you prefer, climate change - is leading the planet to all but certain environmental disaster.