Pearl Jam plans Chicago club show for Katrina

By Jonathan Cohen

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Pearl Jam will play a rare club show
at Chicago’s House of Blues on October 5 to raise money for
victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Tickets, priced at $1,000 each, go on sale Saturday
(September 17). All net proceeds will benefit Habitat for
Humanity, the American Red Cross and the Jazz Foundation of
America.

According to a spokesperson, it is not yet known if the
show will feature additional acts or be available for download
from Pearl Jam’s recently launched digital bootleg store.

Pearl Jam is familiar with the venue. The band, sans
guitarist Stone Gossard, opened for the Who at a charity show
in 2003, while Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder did the honors
when the Who headlined in 1999.

Meanwhile, the Roots have rounded up Jill Scott, TV On The
Radio and Deerhoof for a Friday concert at Philadelphia’s
Kimmel Center. The artists will be donating their performance
fees to the NAACP’s hurricane relief program.

The show will also feature the TBC Brass Band, whose
members were evacuated to Dallas, Atlanta, Houston and
Sacramento, Calif., in the wake of Katrina. The Roots are being
pursued by Def Jam president/CEO Jay-Z to be the first signing
to his new Def Jam Left imprint.

Also just announced for a Katrina benefit on September 22
at Los Angeles Wiltern Theater are Tenacious D, the Foo
Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Queens Of The Stone Age leader Josh Homme
with Jesse “The Devil” Hughes, Fiona Apple and comedians David
Cross and Sarah Silverman.

Reuters/Billboard