Pearl Jam Reveal Birthday Plans
Band announce huge anniversary shows in Wisconsin
To celebrate their 20th anniversary Pearl Jam will host and headline a Labor Day weekend festival at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin on 3-4 September with special guests the Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Mudhoney, Joseph Arthur, Liam Finn, Glen Hansard and John Doe of X.
After the anniversary festival, the band will hit the road for a Canadian tour that will include arena gigs in most of the nation's major cities. That tour will kick off with a show at the Bell Centre in Montreal on 7 September and wrap up in Vancouver at the Pacific Coliseum on 25 September.
The band's anniversary celebrations also include Cameron Crowe's retrospective documentary Pearl Jam Twenty, which is set to arrive along with a corresponding book published by Simon & Schuster and a soundtrack album featuring music selected by Crowe from the film.