Bruce Springsteen Announces ‘Power to the People’ Protest Festival With Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, and Joan Baez — One Month Before Midterms
Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello announced the Power to the People festival during a Nationals Park show in Washington, D.C. — a one-day event set for October 3 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Maryland, headlined by Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard, and Joan Baez.
- Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello announced the “Power to the People” protest festival on Wednesday while performing together at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., as part of Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour
- The one-day event is set for October 3 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland — one month before the midterm elections — and will be headlined by Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard, and Joan Baez
- Throughout the Land of Hope and Dreams tour, Springsteen has opened each show with a declaration: “We are here to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in these dangerous times”
- The festival is organized by Morello and is framed around “freedom, justice, equality and rock ‘n’ roll”
Bruce Springsteen isn’t waiting until after the tour to make his point. The Boss announced a major protest festival Wednesday night from the stage at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., joined by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, who has been touring with him on the Land of Hope and Dreams run.
The Power to the People festival is set for October 3 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland — putting it squarely one month before the midterm elections. The headliner list runs from Springsteen himself to Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard, and Joan Baez, per PBS NewsHour.
The announcement came near the end of Springsteen’s short American tour, which has been explicitly political from the first night. At every stop, Springsteen has told the crowd: “We are here to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in these dangerous times.” He has also used the tour to spotlight activist organizations, welcoming groups into each venue to do outreach and solicit support, per Billboard.
Festival Details
Merriweather Post Pavilion, in Howard County, Maryland, is one of the mid-Atlantic’s signature outdoor venues — a practical choice for a large-scale event of this kind. The festival’s stated themes of “freedom, justice, equality and rock ‘n’ roll” track closely with the rhetoric Springsteen has been deploying throughout the tour, per CBS News Baltimore. No ticket details have been announced yet.
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