Stars Line Up for VAX Live: The Concert to Reunite the World

VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World, will be seen May 8 at 8pm ET on ABC, CBS, YouTube, and iHeart broadcast radio stations and the iHeartRadio app. It will also run at 11pm ET on Fox. YouTube will stream an extended version of the concert on Global Citizen's channel: tinyurl.com/27z6pfbw.

The concert is a project of Global Citizen, an international education and advocacy organization working to catalyze the movement to end extreme poverty. In a statement, it describes VAX LIVE as "a global broadcast and streaming special that aims to ensure equitable vaccine distribution around the world, tackle COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and celebrate a hopeful future as families and communities reunite after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine."

The event will be hosted by Selena Gomez, with performances by Jennifer Lopez, Eddie Vedder, Foo Fighters, J Balvin, and H.E.R.

As part of the broadcast, Global Citizen, artists, partners, and more will ask countries to support the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator; urge philanthropists and corporations to donate enough "dollars-for-doses" for health workers on the front lines in the world's poorest countries; push for financial commitments to regional responders supporting health, education, hunger, equity, and climate efforts; and call on pharmaceutical companies to commit to fair and equitable pricing for COVID-19 vaccines.

"As a global community, we are in a race against time and the key to coming back together is the vaccine," says Hugh Evans, co-founder and CEO of Global Citizen.

"We need to build vaccine confidence in the US and globally and encourage people to take the vaccine as quickly as possible," he adds. "There is a light at the end of this tunnel, but getting vaccines to everyone, everywhere, regardless of who they are or where they are from, is key to ensuring the end of this pandemic around the world. We must all unite to get back on track to eradicating extreme poverty."

Executive producers include The Ad Council, YouTube Originals, iHeart Media, Teneo, Live Nation, Cisco, Citi, Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Proctor and Gamble, and Verizon.