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Add the andPOP Facebook Application(andPOP) - Icelandic acts Bjork and Sigur Ros played a free show Saturday to raise awareness about their country's natural environment.
The open-air Náttúra concert, which also featured other Icelandic artists, was held in the capital city of Reykjavik and drew more than 10,000 people, according to earthtimes.org.
The event, which was also webcast live on Nat Geo Music (the musical offshoot of National Geographic Entertainment), aimed to draw attention to the increase in aluminium smelting and concerns over its impact on Iceland's environment, as well as to promote "green" living.
"Too often battles being fought for nature turn into something negative and into mudslinging," Bjork said in a statement before the show.
"We will not go that way, we are not saying that this and that is forbidden, we are rather asking 'what about all these other possibilities?'"
