A six-hour Labor Day concert organized by Don Henley and featuring Aerosmith, Sting, Elton John and Melissa Etheridge raised about $1 million to help preserve Walden Pond.
The Walden Woods Project is now about $3.5 million away from the $10 million Henley said is needed to buy land surrounding the pond, made famous by author Henry David Thoreau, and keep it out of the hands of developers.About 48,000 fans attended Monday's concert at Foxboro Stadium in Boston.
At a news conference, Henley said he did nothing wrong in giving some money raised by the Isis Fund, parent organization of the Walden Woods Project, to preservation efforts in Texas and California and for a Massachusetts center for abused children.
Less than 1 percent of the millions raised by the fund was used for the other projects, federal tax returns showed.