New York may have the Springsteen-Billy Joel $500 and up fundraiser, but Philly's got something that I like even better.
How's this sound?:
-- Bruce Springsteen solo acoustic.
-- Philadelphia's Ben Franklin Parkway this Saturday.
-- A massive rally for Barack Obama.
And all you have to do is visit your local Obama office and sign up to volunteer.
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The details seem pretty firm at this point. You can read all about here.
The Obama campaign has just announced that Bruce Springsteen will play a free, acoustic, set on the Parkway Saturday afternoon. The stated purpose is to assist voter registration and volunteer efforts, and, indeed, to get "preferred" tickets you have to go to an Obama campaign office and sign up to volunteer. General admission is available via the web.
So how cool is that? If you sign up to help the campaign, you get rewarded with preferred tickets.
The one detail that is not mentioned in any of the reports I've read so far (and this has just broken in the past hour or so) is whether either Obama or Biden will be on hand.
I would guess that just Bruce will be enough to pull 100,000 or more (possibly much more) onto the Parkway. But if Barack is there, too...could we see 500,000? A million?
Hey, on the Streets of Philadelphia, anything is possible!
Bonus footage:
No matter what the weather on Saturday, I know it's going to be a Sunny Day: