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Tom Morello‘s “Power To The People” festival will be broadcast globally this weekend via a live stream on MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) and YouTube, as per theprp. Kicking off this Saturday, October 3, the event will take place live at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Framed as a non-partisan celebration of peace, justice, solidarity, music, and community action, the festival features a heavily politically active lineup curated by the Rage Against The Machine guitarist. The broadcast will highlight performances from a wide range of outspoken artists, topped by a special guest appearance from Bruce Springsteen.
Upcoming shows by Tom Morello:
Tom Morello was born on May 30, 1964, in Harlem, New York City, as the only child of Mary Morello and Ngethe Njoroge. His mother, an educator of Italian and Irish descent from Marseilles, Illinois, earned a Master of Arts at Loyola University, Chicago, and taught English abroad across Germany, Spain, Japan, and Kenya between 1977 and 1983. His parents originally met in August 1963 during a pro-democracy protest in Nairobi, Kenya, before marrying in New York City later that year.
Morello’s father, who participated in the Mau Mau Uprising from 1952 to 1960, went on to serve as Kenya’s first ambassador to the United Nations. The guitarist comes from a prominent Kenyan political lineage: his paternal great-uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, became Kenya’s first elected president, while his aunt, Jemimah Gecaga, was the first female member of the Kenyan legislature. Furthermore, his uncle Njoroge Mungai served as a Kenyan Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament, recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern Kenya.
