British Rock band Jethro Tull and Indian Musician Anoushka Shankar are to perform in a concert, the first to be organized in Mumbai since the terrorist attacks that killed over 170 people.

Another concert, The Live Earth concert had been cancelled in the wake of the attacks.

“Some people might consider it disrespectful that we are having a concert but hopefully a majority will realize what this is about and what it says,” Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson said at a press conference.
The band, on a tour of New Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore, was scheduled to perform in Mumbai last week. The Nov. 29 event was postponed following the attacks.
Proceeds from the Mumbai concert would go to a charity set up for victims of the attacks.
For Anoushka Shankar, the concert is a sort of catharsis.

“As a musician, this is how I speak, how I express the anger within me,” she told reporters.
“Our entire tour has been changed by these events and even though the structure of the concert may remain the same, emotionally perhaps we are saying a lot more,” she said