2006-03-20 - "Bring 'Em Home Now!" Benefit Concert for Peace, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York

On Stage :

Cindy Sheehan, the antiwar protester, begins a 15-city speaking tour with a concert featuring politically active artists to commemorate the Third Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq.

Profits will go to anti-war groups, including Gold Star Families for Peace and Veterans Against the War.

The evening's guest hosts include Jane Fonda, Alec Baldwin, Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo.

The musical performers include Michael Stipe, Rufus Wainwright, Bright Eyes, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Steve Earle, Fischerspooner, Peaches and Devendra Banhart. 

Setlist :

courtesy of the REM Timeline :

Steve Earle : F The CC / Rich Man's War
Margaret Cho : Comedy Skit
Fischerspooner: Sweetness / Emerge / We Need A War
Cindy Sheehan : Introduction by Susan Sarandon / Speech / Dr Entisar Mohammed Ariabi Speech / Geoffrey Millard Speech
Moby : For What It's Worth (w/ Laura Dawn & Darin Murphy)
Devendra Banhart : Heard Somebody Say / I Feel Just Like A Child
Peaches : Fuck Or Kill / Two Guys (For Every Girl) / Fuck The Pain Away
Chuck D : Speech
Rufus Wainwright : Gay Messiah / 11:11 / Liberty Cabbage / Hallelujah / Somewhere Over The Rainbow (w/Kate McGarrigle)
Bright Eyes : When The President Talks To God & 2 other songs
Michael Stipe : In The Sun (w/ Joseph Arthur, James Iha, & Mark Mulcahy) / Don't Talk Crazy (w/ Arthur/Iha/Mulcahy/Rain Phoenix/Catherine Popper/Jamie Catto/Duncan Bridgeman) / I Have Seen Trouble (w/ Arthur/Iha/Mulcahy/Phoenix/Popper/Catto/Bridgeman)


Recording :

Sadly, there's no audio recording of this event. 

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Poster :