Roger Waters joins Neil Young's 30th acoustic Bridge School Benefit Concert
Written by Matt   
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Bridge School Benefit concert, 2016 with Roger Waters

Roger Waters is going unplugged and joining the likes of Metallica, Dave Matthews, Willie Nelson and Norah Jones for Neil Young's 30th annual acoustic Bridge School Benefit Concerts at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, on October 22nd and 23rd.

The lineup also includes Case/lang/Veirs (the project of singer-songwriters k.d. lang, Neko Case and Laura Veirs), My Morning Jacket, Cage the Elephant and Nils Lofgren, as well as Neil Young performing with his band Promise of the Real (featuring Willie’s son Lukas Nelson). All the acts are scheduled to perform both days.

Tickets, priced from $44.50 to $199.50, go on sale at 10am EST next Monday, August 29th. Proceeds benefit the school Neil and ex-wife Pegi Young founded in 1986 to help children with severe speech and physical impairments. The event has previously featured performers like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, Elton John, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, Sheryl Crow, Santana and more, with this year's participants Metallica having previously performed at the show twice.

Tickets for the first show, which takes place at 5pm on the 22nd, will be available through this link, and for the second show, at 2pm on the 23rd, through this link.