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McCartney, Peppers to Rock Bridge School
09/08/2004 3:46 AM, Reuters
Jonathan Cohen
Paul McCartney , the Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Tony Bennett , Sonic Youth, Ben Harper and the Innocent
Criminals, Los Lonely Boys and Tegan & Sara will join event
founder Neil Young on the bill for the 18th annual Bridge
School Benefit. The shows will be held Oct. 23-24 at Shoreline
Amphitheater outside San Francisco.
Performing as part of Bridge School's traditional acoustic
format will be unfamiliar to a number of the artists,
particularly McCartney. The former Beatle will be offering what
is believed to be his first acoustic set since a 1991 taping
for "MTV Unplugged," which was later released on CD.
Harper will be making his second Bridge appearance. His
guest turn on Pearl Jam's "Indifference" at the 2001 event was
released on a holiday single for members of the band's Ten Club
fan organization.
The Peppers, Tegan & Sara and Sonic Youth will also each be
making their second Bridge School visits, while Bennett and Los
Lonely Boys will be making their event debuts.
As for Young, the shows will cap a brief run of
performances that include a Sept. 15 show in Berkeley, Calif.,
the Sept. 17 Clean Air benefit in Duncan, British Columbia, the
annual Farm Aid benefit on Sept. 18 outside Seattle, and
McCartney's Adopt-A-Minefield gala in Los Angeles on Oct. 15.
Reuters/Billboard
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