Saturday, October 4, 2008

The Boss is performing free for Obama in Philly.

The Boss will turn none away today
By Maria Panaritis
Inquirer Staff Writer
The campaign, which announced the concert only a few days ago to boost Democratic voter registration in the battleground Keystone State, had set aside this and other perks as an incentive to draw foot soldiers to its cause.
"I just came from the Center City office," Obama spokesman Zach Friend said yesterday afternoon, "and they told me that since this began, they signed up more than 1,000 volunteers just at that office."
The concert ballooned yesterday to a three-act mini-festival when the Obama campaign announced that the local musicians Nora Whitaker and Amos Lee had been added to the program.Gates were scheduled to open at 2 p.m. for the 3:30 show. Organizers said the event would include get-out-the-vote speeches by field organizers interspersed among the performances by Whitaker and Lee.
The concert is to culminate with an open-ended acoustic set by Springsteen. The Jersey rocker had not committed to a set number of songs, said Friend of the Obama campaign.
"It's up to him," Friend said.
Premium access to the stage - it will be at 20th and the Parkway - will be granted to people who got tickets by either volunteering for Obama or pledging to volunteer between now and Election Day, Friend said.
I have joined a weekly phone bank for Obama so I got one of the premium tickets. Yeah!

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