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Eddie Vedder to headline “Hot Stove Cool Music” music festival

Eddie Vedder will be among the performers and baseball players at the Hot Stove Cool Music virtual music festival. The festival benefits the Foundation To Be Named Later, which raises money for the FTBNL/Peter Gammons College Scholarships and their nonprofit partners. The foundation was founded in 2005 by former Cubs president Theo Epstein and his brother Paul. The festival kicks-off Tuesday, May 18 at 6 p.m.

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Bruce Springsteen to be honored with 2021 ‘Woody Guthrie Prize’

The Woody Guthrie Center said in a press release on Tuesday that it will present the the 2021 Woody Guthrie Prize to Bruce Springsteen at a virtual event to be held on May 13. The Woody Guthrie Prize is “awarded to an artist of any medium who continues in the footsteps of Guthrie.” Guthrie, who died at age 65 in 1967, was an American folk singer known for “This Land is Your Land.”

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AC/DC’s Brian Johnson teams up with Foo Fighters for “Back in Black” performance

AC/DC’s Brian Johnson joined Foo Fighters onstage for a collaborative rendition of “Back in Black.” The rock legends teamed up at Global Citizen’s “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World” at Inglewood, Calif.’s SoFi Stadium, an event is to “[call] on world leaders to step up to make sure vaccines are accessible for all so we can end the pandemic for everyone, everywhere,” according to the Global Citizen website.