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Pearl Jam plans Chicago club show for Katrina

Posted on: Thursday, 15 September 2005, 03:46 CDT

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

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