Rock Legends to Play Obama Fundraiser

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September 18, 2008
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Rock Legends to Play Obama Fundraiser

The Pennsylvania Campaign for Change has just announced a Monday, October 13 concert fundraiser to benefit Obama for America featuring many Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and other American music icons. Additionally, the show will be a very large voter outreach opportunity for the Pennsylvania Obama campaign, which has already built the largest volunteer-based campaign in Pennsylvania’s history. The campaign has more than 70 field offices and thousands of volunteers preparing for an unprecedented Get Out the Vote operation. There are now more than 1 million more Democrats in the state than Republicans, an increase of 500,000 since 2004.
Tickets will be available at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 19, and are $50 for the general public and $30 for University Park students with a Pennsylvania State University ID. More ticket information is available online at:
https://www.barackobama.com/psu
EVENT DETAILS:
WHO: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti
WHAT: Concert Fundraiser
WHERE: Bryce Jordan Center, Pennsylvania State University State College, PA
WHEN: Monday, October 13, 2008 - Doors Open 5:30 PM EDT

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Rock Legends to Play Obama Fundraiser

The Pennsylvania Campaign for Change has just announced a Monday, October 13 concert fundraiser to benefit Obama for America featuring many Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and other American music icons. Additionally, the show will be a very large voter outreach opportunity for the Pennsylvania Obama campaign, which has already built the largest volunteer-based campaign in Pennsylvania’s history. The campaign has more than 70 field offices and thousands of volunteers preparing for an unprecedented Get Out the Vote operation. There are now more than 1 million more Democrats in the state than Republicans, an increase of 500,000 since 2004.
Tickets will be available at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 19, and are $50 for the general public and $30 for University Park students with a Pennsylvania State University ID. More ticket information is available online at:
https://www.barackobama.com/psu
EVENT DETAILS:
WHO: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti
WHAT: Concert Fundraiser
WHERE: Bryce Jordan Center, Pennsylvania State University State College, PA
WHEN: Monday, October 13, 2008 - Doors Open 5:30 PM EDT

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gracefuldead

16 years 3 months ago

IMHO
Very much looking forward to this event. It might be important to notice that each person listed as a musician is endorsing Obama as an individual - there is no mention of the Dead or the Allman Brothers - now, of course they may play as if they were in those groups, but it's not fair to say the Dead are endorsing a political party - each of these people are entitled to endorse Obama as am I. I hope we all have better things to do than to let the rantings of a few spoil the positive force this community can have - we have been so marginalized (self marginalized, I might add) by our life style - we are kind and polite and will demonstrate our pride in the music we love and the importance of this election. Thanks - it IS my birthday, so I figure it gives me courage to say things here - would have thought I would lurk.
DantheMan

16 years 3 months ago

Heaven's door
11/7/1987 (Kaiser) from GDH #363 thirteen summers ago. Don't want this badge or any guns no more. When we die to the world we live forever. Jerry didn't die, he just don't live no more.
TomBanjo

16 years 3 months ago

Tangled Up in Blue.
TomBanjo Phree you made my point exactly! I agree that the psycedelic movement was partially political and was born out of a miserable time period with a democrat congress and presidents in the early to late sixties and then more of the same in the late sixties with a republican president. So like I said earlier I can't follow either candidate because history proves that both parties will screw you over. Like Bob Dylan said "We always did feel the same we just saw it from a different point of view".......I really think we all feel the same we just see it differently but to call a Dead Head a Redneck who took too many doses just proves my point even more. Don't let this Govt and these politicians divide us Dead Heads and Americans. "Oh freedom, oh Liberty, oh leave me alone. I will find my own way home."

The Pennsylvania Campaign for Change has just announced a Monday, October 13 concert fundraiser to benefit Obama for America featuring many Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and other American music icons. Additionally, the show will be a very large voter outreach opportunity for the Pennsylvania Obama campaign, which has already built the largest volunteer-based campaign in Pennsylvania’s history. The campaign has more than 70 field offices and thousands of volunteers preparing for an unprecedented Get Out the Vote operation. There are now more than 1 million more Democrats in the state than Republicans, an increase of 500,000 since 2004.

Tickets will be available at 12:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 19, and are $50 for the general public and $30 for University Park students with a Pennsylvania State University ID. More ticket information is available online at:

https://www.barackobama.com/psu

EVENT DETAILS:

WHO: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti

WHAT: Concert Fundraiser

WHERE: Bryce Jordan Center, Pennsylvania State University State College, PA

WHEN: Monday, October 13, 2008 - Doors Open 5:30 PM EDT

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Live Broadcast?

Does anyone know if this show will be broadcast like the previous one was?

tickets

they just put tickets up for sale ooh by the way..........LETS GO PHILLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lowers and Floor seats are available

2 co-workers just scored tickets. 1 got 2 in section 115 and the other got 2 floor tickets!

News from the Bryce Jordan Center

Lots will open on SUNDAY! This should mean there will be a serious Shakedown street! On the ticket front: "Some patrons had attempted to purchase more than the limit of two tickets. If you had created a second account and purchased another set of tickets, you should have been notified by Ticketmaster that your order was cancelled and money was credited back to your charge card. In the event that you received tickets or TicketFast emails on a cancelled order, NOTE THAT THE BARCODE HAS BEEN INVALIDATED AND WILL NOT ALLOW ENTRY INTO THE BUILDING. Patrons with cancelled tickets will be denied entry and information will be provided for the PA State Attorney General’s Office in the event they need to file a complaint regarding any tickets purchased on the secondary market (StubHub, eBay, TicketNetwork, etc)."