Metallica, Mayer join Young's annual charity show

NEW YORK (Billboard) - John Mayer, Metallica, Tom Waits, and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder are among the artists who will join Neil Young for his 21st annual Bridge School Benefit concerts near San Francisco on October 27-28.

Also on this year's bill are Tegan and Sara, Regina Spektor, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Tickets for the Bridge concerts, which will take place at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, will be priced at $150, $75 and $39.50 (plus service charges).

Waits, who previously played at one of the 1999 Bridge concerts, will perform with the Kronos Quartet. Vedder, who has been in the Bridge lineup eight times before, will play alongside Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and ex-Peppers/ex-Pearl Jam drummer Jack Irons.

Neil Young, who hosts the annual, mostly-acoustic event, has played every year since launching the benefit in 1986. Proceeds from the shows support the Bridge School, the northern California school for children with physical and speech impediments, co-founded by Young's wife Pegi.

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