Billy Corgan holds benefit concert for Highland Park shooting victims
nypost.comannounced plans for the fundraiser, titled “Together and Together Again,” earlier this month.Corgan’s charity gig served as a moment of reflection and an opportunity to remember those lost, as well as provide a sense of financial relief for surviving victims.“The reason I named it ‘Together and Together Again’ is we won’t stop.
We will always come together,” Corgan said. “We will always bond around what we care about, our community and our love for one another.
No one can take that away from us.”“And tonight we begin to reclaim that for Highland Park, and we want to bring that message to the world.”The three-hour show was held at Madame Zuzu’s, a plant-based tea house that Corgan owns with his partner Chloe Mendel, located on the same strip where the senseless attack took place.Mendel, along with her and Corgan’s children, planned to attend the Fourth of July parade the attack took place, but they were delayed by a later flight.
Seven people were killed after a gunman opened fire using a “high-powered” rifle. More than 40 people, ranging in age from 8 to 85, were injured in the shooting.
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