Charity work and Live 8

Linkin Park also participated in numerous charitable events, which included raising money to benefit victims of Hurricane Charley in 2004 and later Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The band donated $75,000 to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation in March 2004. They also helped relief efforts for the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami victims by staging several charity concerts and setting up an additional fund called Music for Relief . The band participated at Live 8 , a series of charitable benefit concerts set up to raise global awareness. Alongside Jay-Z, the band performed on Live 8’s stage in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, to a global audience. The band would later be reunited with Jay-Z at the Grammy Award Ceremony 2006 , during which they performed ” Numb/Encore “, en route to winning a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration . They were joined on stage by Paul McCartney who added verses from the song ” Yesterday “. They would later go on to play at the 2006 Summer Sonic music festival, which was hosted by Metallica in Japan.