As more artists drop out of the White House’s Freedom 250 event, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello are leading a protest music festival.
While performing together on Wednesday at Nationals Park in Washington DC, they announced the one-day Power to the People festival will take place Oct. 3 at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, celebrating “freedom, justice, equality and rock ’n’ roll,” with a portion of proceeds benefitting VoteRiders and HeadCount.
“The Gestapo tactics of this president and this administration will not stand here,” said Springsteen, according to the Associated Press. “This American tragedy can only be stopped
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