This year’s Love Rocks benefit concert in New York City is one you won’t want to miss!
On Monday, the seventh-annual benefit concert released its lineup withJames Taylor, John Mayer Trio andSheryl Crowas headliners.
More performances include: Mavis Staples, Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, St. Vincent, Rufus Wainwright, Jim James, Stephen Marley, Gary Clark Jr., Allison Russell,The War and Treaty, Bernie Williams and more to be announced.
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The concert — taking place on March 9 at the Beacon Theatre — supports the New York-based non-profitGod’s Love We Deliver, whose mission is to provide life-sustaining meals and nutrition counseling for people in New York with severe illness.
The benefit concert has raised over $25 million to date and has funded more than 2.5 million meals.
Presale tickets for the concert will go live on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET, while regular sale tickets will go live on Friday at the same time atticketmaster.com.
The benefit concert will also mark the latest reunion of theJohn MayerTrio. The trio, which consists of Mayer, bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan, formed in 2005.
Together, the band released an album titledTry!that same year and toured as an opening act for The Rolling Stones. Palladino and Jordan also worked on Mayer’s following albumsContinuum,Battle StudiesandThe Search for Everythingtogether.
The band reunited in 2009 for a performance onThe Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, then twice again in December of that year. They also appeared in a 2014 episode ofLate Night with Seth Meyers. Their most recent performance was in 2016 at theJazz Foundation of AmericaGala, though they continued to play mini Trio sets during Mayer’s 2017The Search for Everythingtour. Palladino still tours and records with the guitarist as of 2022.
Watch a sizzle reel with past Love Rocks NYC highlightshere.
source: people.com
