Tom Morello & Rise Against To Headline ‘DEFEND MINNESOTA!’ Benefit Concert

Tom Morello and Rise Against top the bill for “A Concert of Solidarity & Resistance to DEFEND MINNESOTA!,” an all-ages afternoon benefit show set to take place at First Avenue in Minneapolis this Friday, January 30. All proceeds from the event will go towards the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two U.S. citizens killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis.

Al Di Meola, Ike Reilly and “very special guests” will also perform at the benefit concert “uniting music, protest, and community action,” according to a press release. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. with the show scheduled to run from 12 p.m. – 2 p.m.

Tom Morello shared the following regarding the recent events:

“If it looks like fascism, sounds like fascism, acts like fascism, dresses like fascism, talks like fascism, kills like fascism and lies like fascism, boys & girls it’s f*cking fascism. It’s here, it’s now, it’s in my city, it’s in your city and it must be resisted, protested, defended against, stood up to, exposed, ousted, overthrown and driven out. By you and by me. We are coming to Minneapolis where the people have heroically stood up against ICE, stood up against Trump, stood up against this terrible rising tide of state terror. Where the people have stood up for their neighbors and themselves, for democracy and justice. Ain’t nobody coming to save us except us and it’s now or never.” — Tom Morello

Tickets are on sale now through AXS.