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entertainment1d ago
Commentary: Springsteen, Trump and two very different music events. Guess which one artists want to play?
- Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello announced a new festival, Power to the People, set for Oct. in the Washington area.
- The lineup includes the Foo Fighters, Brittany Howard, Joan Baez and Dave Matthews.
- Proceeds will benefit voter groups VoteRiders and HeadCount to reduce ID barriers and register voters.
- Morello framed the event as about freedom, justice and creativity in activism.
- Springsteen urged collective action, saying: “There is no one coming to save us. We’ve got to do it ourselves.”
- The festival is set about a month before the midterm elections and aims to mobilize voters.
- Other music events linked to Trump faced withdrawals over political involvement concerns.
- Freedom 250 organizers position themselves as a public-private partnership tied to the White House initiative.
- The article notes previous spins on political music events and public reactions to them.
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