Mick Fleetwood On Planning Benefit Concert After Maui Wildfires: ‘Music Heals’

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Mick Fleetwood is planning a benefit concert to help those impacted by the recent wildfires in Maui. ET’s Kevin Frazier spoke to the Fleetwood Mac drummer, who lives on the Hawaiian island, about the benefit concert and the healing power of music. “I’ve already got a lovely sort of catalog of people that are concerned.

I will remain mute on who they are, but I will either become part of something that we can do on a grand scale, which is great,” Fleetwood said of the concert, currently in the works. “Anything is great, and playing in Honolulu, about 2 weeks from now, and that concert’s becoming — Henry Kapono who lives in Oahu, was celebrating the 50th anniversary of his career — well, I’m going to be doing that show, supporting.” “So, all of this is unfolding is something I feel I can be a part, or really be spearheading,” the famed drummer continued. “And it’s not now, but music heals, and music does its version of what I’m doing now.” For Fleetwood, the tragedy hits home even harder, with Maui the place the 76-year-old musician calls home, and a place where he once owned a restaurant.

The Front St. property was one of the many establishments lost in the blaze. “I happen to live here. This is my home. I’m not passing through.

People think, ‘Oh, how many times do you come here and see your restaurant?” I say, ‘No, no, no. I live here. This is the only home I have,'” he stressed. “And so all of that is something — not to jump too far ahead, but the intention would be absolutely to be part of, or to be right shaking the flag, to rally around and put on a great incredibly beautiful show.