Over 50 artists in Katrina benefit

Over 50 musical acts performed Saturday night (September 10th) during the ReAct Now: Music And Relief benefit show that aired between 8:00 P.M. and approximately 12:15 A.M. on MTV, VH1, CMT and all other MTV Networks channels. Artists either performed in studios in Los Angeles, Nashville, or New York, or else allowed portions of their concerts that night in other cities to be broadcast on the program. Viewers were encouraged to donate money to relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast region two weeks ago.

The list of performers spanned rock, pop, hip-hop and other musical genres, including Coldplay, U2, Audioslave, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, Kelly Clarkson, Ciara, Sheryl Crow, Xzibit, Good Charlotte, Green Day, the Dave Matthews Band, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, John Mayer, Maroon5, Rob Thomas, Kanye West and others.

A number of artists who appeared, such as Randy Jackson and Allen Toussaint, are New Orleans residents and have deep musical roots in the decimated city.

The show opened with Alicia Keys singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" from the musical Carousel, and closed four hours later with Neil Young performing Fats Domino's "Walking To New Orleans."

Many artists played songs that either paid tribute to the region, such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kid Rock's collaboration on Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama," while other acts performed tunes that seemed appropriate in context, like Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and Reznor's "Hurt."

Audioslave's Tom Morello told MTV.com why his band was there: "It was a terrible natural disaster but an even greater human catastrophe."

Rapper Xzibit told MTV.com why he could relate to the suffering of residents in the affected area: "I have a 10-year-old son, and to see people his age not in a Third World country, but right here in the U.S., digging through trash two days with no food or water, trying to find something to eat and pick it off the ground...(that) was very disturbing, and I will never forget that."

Here is the complete performance line-up from the ReAct Now: Music And Relief telethon. Many of the performance are available for download frm VH1.com, for a small fee that benefits those affected by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Alicia Keys - "You'll Never Walk Alone"
Lynyrd Skynyrd with Kid Rock - "Sweet Home Alabama"
Kelly Clarkson - "Shelter"
Green Day - "Wake Me Up When September Ends"
Rolling Stones - "Waiting On A Friend"
John Mayer Trio - "Gravity"
David Banner - "Cadillacs on 22s"
Rob Thomas - "Time After Time"
Buckwheat Zydeco - "I'm Gonna Love You Anyway"
Coldplay - "Fix You"
Big & Rich - "I Pray For You"
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails - "Hurt"
Sheryl Crow - "Good is Good"
Bon Jovi - "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night"
U2 - "Love and Peace or Else"
Common - "It's Your World"
Beck - "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime"
Neville Brothers - "Brothers"
Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional - "Ghost Of A Good Thing"
Pearl Jam - "Given To Fly"
Jewel - "A Life Uncommon"
3 Doors Down - "Here By Me"
Neil Young with Emmylou Harris - "This Old Guitar"
Kanye West - "Touch The Sky"
Elton John - "Porch Swing In Tupelo"
Marc Broussard - "Louisiana 1927/Home"
Melissa Etheridge - "Four Days," a new a cappella song that ended with "Swing Low Sweet Chariot"
Motley Crue with Chester Bennington of Linkin Park - "Home Sweet Home"
Brian Wilson - "Walking Down the Path Of Life/Love And Mercy"
Alan Jackson - "Rainy Day In June"
Maroon 5 - "Don't Let Me Down"
Staind - "Right Here"
Goo Goo Dolls - "Give A Little Bit"
John Mellencamp - "Walk Tall"
Sugarland - "Stand Back Up"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under The Bridge"
The Game - "Dreams"
Paul McCartney - "Fine Line"
Chris Thomas King - "What Would Jesus Do"
Dave Matthews Band - "American Baby"
Hank Williams Jr aka Thunderhead Hawkins - "Backwater Blues"
Good Charlotte - "We Believe"
Audioslave - "Doesn't Remind Me"
Chester Bennington - "Let Down"
Fiona Apple - "Extraordinary Machine"
Allen Toussaint - "With You In Mind/Brickyard Blues"
The Radiators - "Last Getaway"
Neil Young with the Fisk Jubilee Singers - "Walking To New Orleans"
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