PEARL JAM TO COMBAT HOMELESSNESS WITH TWO SEATTLE STADIUM SHOWS

Pearl Jam will play two concerts in the band’s hometown of Seattle this summer to help the city’s homeless. Called “The Home Shows,” the gigs will be the group’s first in Seattle in five years and will take place at Safeco Field, the baseball stadium that’s home to the Mariners, on August 8th and 10th. Pearl Jam has pledged at least $1 million from the concerts to addressing the area’s homelessness issues, with the band hoping to raise $10 million in 2018 in collaboration with area businesses, government agencies and nonprofits to alleviate the problem. Partners already on board include Amazon, the Mariners, Starbucks, the Port of Seattle, the City of Seattle and others. To commemorate the announcement of the shows, guitarist Mike McCready raised the Pearl Jam flag atop the city’s iconic Space Needle on Monday. The concerts, which are expected to draw 100,000 fans over two nights, will be the largest in Seattle since the Rolling Stones played two nights at the long-demolished Kingdome in 1981.

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