Protest concert led by Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters is coming to Howard County

Just a few miles from the White House, Bruce Springsteen teased on Wednesday night an upcoming concert — “another night of music and resistance,” the Boss said on stage at Nationals Park, according to The Washington Post.

Now we have the details: Springsteen and a star-studded lineup of musicians across generations and genres will bring the Power to the People concert to Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia on Oct. 3.

Other acts scheduled to perform include Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, organizer Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Joan Baez, Jack Black and more.

Tickets, which go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, cost $125 for lawn seating; $225 for general admission, which includes access to the pavilion and front-of-stage pit area; $375 for a reserved pavilion seat and access to a VIP deck; and $1,500 for VIP suite access. Net proceeds from VIP tickets will be donated to human rights and social justice nonprofit organizations, according to the festival’s website.

The concert, according to the venue’s website, will be a “non-partisan” event. It will be Springsteen’s first time performing at the storied venue in Howard County.

Throughout the 20-time Grammy winner’s current Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour, Springsteen has repeatedly criticized President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies, telling audiences, “We are no longer the land of the free, the home of the brave.”

In January, Springsteen released “Streets of Minneapolis,” a protest song against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He performed the track on the penultimate episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” earlier this month while calling out Trump.

“I am here in support tonight for Stephen because you’re the first guy in America who’s lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke,” Springsteen said.

Trump has responded to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member, a longtime critic of his, on social media, calling Springsteen a “very boring singer” with an “incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

The 76-year-old Springsteen last performed in Maryland on Sept. 13, 2024, with the E Street Band at Camden Yards.

The Oct. 3 lineup at Merriweather Post Pavilion also features Dropkick Murphys, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, Serj Tankian of System of a Down, Brittany Howard, Taylor Momsen, The Linda Lindas, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Matt Cameron of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, Grandson, The Neighborhood Kids and a DJ set by Shepard Fairey.