Pearl Jam, Sabbath, CSNY Members Join Power To The People

Tom Morello’s Power to the People festival is adding some serious veteran firepower. Nathaniel Rateliff, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Stephen Stills, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, State Radio, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian and the Last Internationale have joined the lineup for the Oct. 3 event at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md.

The new additions will share two stages with an already eye-popping bill featuring Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Public Enemy, Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard, Dropkick Murphys, Jack Black and friends, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, grandson, Taylor Momsen, Matt Cameron, the Linda Lindas, DMC and Morello, along with a DJ set from Shepard Fairey.

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Morello’s stated vision is a gathering built around “freedom, justice, equality and rock and roll,” with the festival extending his long-running intersection of guitar heroics and activism into a full-scale event. That mission will also play out in the festival’s Freedom Village, an immersive space featuring nonprofit organizations, advocacy groups and community partners focused on civic engagement, grassroots organizing, education, mutual aid and social impact. A portion of all ticket proceeds, plus 100% of net VIP proceeds, will benefit VoteRiders and HeadCount, which will help attendees register to vote and learn more about participating in upcoming elections.

The festival’s participating organizations will include the ACLU, Farm Aid, Rock the Vote, Oxfam, Noise for Now, Trans Maryland, the Woody Guthrie Center, the Mary Morello Memorial Project and many others.

The gathering goes down just after the Sept. 25 release of Morello’s first solo rock album, Everyone Gets Everything They Want, which features collaborators Tankian, Beartooth and Morello’s teenage son Roman, who co-wrote five tracks.

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