putting up

I would say

The staff are putting on a concert as part of their fund-raising campaign.

So would I.

I think of putting up in at least a few contexts, but not this one in the opening post: putting up a poster about a concert to be held in the future, as in raising the poster so that people going by can see it; dealing with chiding by a friend who actually likes you and is trying to help you, so putting up with; constructing a barn for your animals and their feed. Barns often have two floors or a main floor with storage space built over the beams.

Putting on a concert is used in the US and I suspect other countries that have a lot of english speakers. To me it describes a variety of elements coming together, such as hiring musicians, ascertaining where the concert will be held, scheduling that, practice sessions, advertising the concert, plus a lot of other tasks.

Putting on is also common in British English. Arranging, promoting,

Again, context. The guys above are right of course though Oss' pertinent remark notwithstanding "putting up" might prove appropriate in some cases, say to inject a note of humor

Dale, your reply is not helpful. He is not asking about whimsical or far fetched usage.

Also, I'm a woman, not a guy.

Prolly you're right, Con. However, there's an outside chance....

Ah God Lord mercy Temp, forget a whole lot at 86; my apologies

Noted

I am going to be whimsical now so maybe I was harsh on you! I have remember how we use 'putting up' in British English...

When we preserve food by pickling etc (canning you call it in the USA?) we sometimes say we are putting it up e.g. my mother put up 5 jars of tomatoes and 6 jars of apple jelly this week. Also to tolerate something is to put up with it. To prepare food and put it in a picnic basket for a trip could be called putting it up.

That kind of putting up is done here too. I don't do canning (too much like my old lab days, which I liked, but are over, since 1980). I do make refrigerator pickles of several sorts, could call that putting them up, but hey, I just go ahead and make them.

As long as we are going through ever single use, there is also the hitting of a small hard ball with a stick so it goes toward a hole in the ground at a higher elevation.

Thanks to all of you.