Tom Morello Curates "Power to the People" Festival Featuring Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters

The ever-outspoken Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine is throwing a music festival “celebrating FREEDOM! JUSTICE! EQUALITY! & ROCK N ROLL!” Power to the People Festival happens at Columbia, MD’s Merriweather Post Pavilion on October 3 . Morello will perform, and the lineup also features Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Jack Black (featuring Roman Morello, Revel Ian, Yoyoka Soma and Hugo Weiss ), Dropkick Murphys, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, Serj Tankian of System of a Down, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless, The Linda Lindas, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels , a DJ set from Shepard Fairey , “special guest” Bruce Springsteen (who Morello has been on tour with), and more. See it in full below.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, May 30 at 10 AM ET, with a presale starting Friday, May 29 at 10 AM ET.

The festival had previously described itself as “non-partisan,” but that wording is no longer in any of its announcements or on its website.

Meanwhile, Joan Baez recently appeared on Julia Louis-Dreyfus ‘ podcast, Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus , where she talked about artists speaking up about politics. “There’s a whole generation of really talented artists who are quite silent about the current assault on democracy,” Louis-Dreyfus said. “Do you find that unbelievably frustrating or do you understand, perhaps, where those artists are coming from?”

“I think I understand where they’re coming from,” Baez said. “It’s revealing that the one song that’s used in all of these demonstrations is ‘The Times They Are a-Changin.’ The level of that writing from back then hasn’t been approached. No one has approached it. You can’t summon that up, I don’t think.”

Baez continued, “The young people right now, some are writing amazing stuff. A few are willing to speak out. Brandi Carlile is. And Maggie Rogers, my pal, put [it] right out there front and center on the stage at a rally against ICE. I sort of cock my head at these stadiums filled with brilliant young women songwriters, and why can’t they just take that little step? Because they’re already richer than God, you know, most of them. So, that little step.”

_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/tom-morello-announces-power-to-the-people-festival-ft-bruce-springsteen-foo-fighters-more/)._