Billy Bragg playing Pete Seeger 90th Birthday concert and Wayne Kramer tribute

Music News | Mar 25th, 2009

Billy Bragg
Photo by Bryan Kremkau

Billy Bragg is coming over to New York to do 2 one-off shows. He’ll be playing Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday gig in New York at Madison Square Garden. He will be joining Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, John Mellencamp, Juanes, Arlo Guthrie, Ani DiFranco and Michael Franti.

The other concert is Road Recovery Benefit, which is honoring MC5’s Wayne Kramer. That show is going to be at Nokia Theatre on May 1st. Bragg will be playing in a super group with Wayne Kramer, Perry Farrell, Tom Morello, Jerry Cantrell, and Don Was. Also performing will be Joan as Police Woman, Miggs, Ours & More Surprise Guests! The show will be hosted by Emcee Matt Pinfield. but not so fast, tickets will be $$$ so beware of that!

More info about the Nokia Theatre show can be found here.

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