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Jack Black's Jack Sabbath Performs With Geezer Butler at Power to the People Festival

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In Short: Jack Black's Black Sabbath tribute band, Jack Sabbath, performed at the Power to the People Festival, featuring Geezer Butler.

At the Power to the People Festival in Columbia, Maryland, Jack Black's Black Sabbath tribute band, Jack Sabbath, reunited with a special guest appearance by Black Sabbath's bassist Geezer Butler.

The festival, organized by Tom Morello, featured a lineup of renowned musicians including Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Dave Grohl.

Jack Sabbath, which includes Jack Black, Roman Morello, Revel Ian, Yoyoka Soma, and Hugo Weiss, performed covers of Black Sabbath songs such as 'War Pigs' and 'The Wizard'.

Black praised Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath during his speech, highlighting their influence on heavy metal music.

The festival also included a performance by Bruce Springsteen, who sang Bob Dylan’s 'Chimes of Freedom' with Joan Baez and performed other songs like Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 'Fortunate Son' and Neil Young’s 'Rockin’ in the Free World'.

The event concluded with a rendition of John Lennon’s 'Power to the People', featuring dozens of performers.

The festival's website states that a portion of ticket sales and 100% of VIP ticket proceeds will be donated to VoteRiders and HeadCount, organizations working to eliminate barriers to voting.

The Power to the People Festival was livestreamed on YouTube for free, allowing fans who could not attend in person to watch the performances.

In the UK, the Glastonbury Festival announced ticket prices for 2027, breaking the £400 barrier for the first time.

Glastonbury organizers cited rising costs due to the financial impact of two years without a festival because of the pandemic.

The Global Citizen Festival, set to take place in Central Park, will feature a diverse lineup including Alicia Keys, Monét, YEONJUN, and YOSHIKI.

Fans can earn free festival tickets by completing action-based challenges through the Global Citizens app.

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What's confirmed

• That festival was organized by Tom Morello and saw Black joined by his young ‘ Back To The Beginning ‘ cohorts in Roman Morello, Revel Ian, Yoyoka Soma and Hugo Weiss.
• "Does this mean they have to let Aaron Lewis perform on Kimmel now?" Actor/musician Jack Black was among the performers to hit the stage at today’s (October 03rd) ‘ Power To The People ‘ festival in Columbia, MD.
• Billed as ‘ Jack Sabbath ‘, that abbreviated set expected consisted of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath covers, including a rendition of “ War Pigs ” featuring Black Sabbath ‘s own Geezer Butler.
• Also performed were renditions of Sabbath ‘s “ The Wizard ” and the aforementioned take on “ War Pigs ” with Butler guesting.
• Today’s ‘ Power To The People ‘ festival was livestreamed across YouTube for free.
• Black, Morello and Revel as well as Yokoyo Soma and Hugo Weiss played a set featuring many of the band’s most iconic songs, and as Consequence reports, their closing performance of “War Pigs” added an even more special guest to the already exciting line-up, with none other than Black Sabbath bassist himself Geezer Butler joining.
• Videos of the performance can be found posted online.
• The Tenacious D frontman brought his usual energy with dance moves during the solos, even performing harmonica during “The Wizard” which he had stated was something he learned specifically for this gig.
• Steven Taylor October 3rd, 2026 - 5:17 PM Photo Credit: Brett Padelford “Jack Sabbath” – a Jack Black -led group of teenage performers including Tom Morello’s son Roman and Scott Ian’s son Revel – banded together at Tom Morello’s Power to the People festival to perform a slate of tribute covers to (as their name might imply) the legendary Black Sabbath.
• The performance is one of many in the stacked Power to the People festival – including names like Serj Tankian, David Grohl, Public Enemy, Killer Mike, as well Scott Ian and of course host Tom Morello – but stands as a unique tribute to one of the biggest icons to metal and the music world at large.

What's still developing

• “This motherfucker invented Heavy Metal, along with Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and the immortal Tony Iommi, the darkest, heaviest shit the world had ever heard,” Black said of Ozzy in his speech.
• Headliners for the festival, which takes place from 23 to 27 June, have yet to be announced, but rumours are already swirling, with everyone from Harry Styles and Fontaines DC to Taylor Swift and Stevie Wonder said to be in the mix.
• Tickets for the festival typically sell out in less than an hour, with thousands of fans joining online queues to fight for their place.
• You can check your registration on its website., external In recent years, the festival has also introduced an automatic queuing system on the day of sale, with fans needing to be online before the start of the sale with a valid registration number.
• Analysis by BBC News found the cost of attending the UK's major festivals has surged over the past decade - rising above the rate of inflation.
• Glastonbury said they would not be commenting on today's announcement but, in 2023, Emily Eavis acknowledged it was a "challenging time" for festival organisers.
• Madonna has hinted that she will perform in the UK next year, but has not said where The festival last took place in 2025, with Olivia Rodrigo, The 1975 and Neil Young topping the bill.
• Olivia Rodrigo was the last act to perform on the Pyramid Stage in 2025, before Glastonbury took a fallow year After taking a fallow year in 2026, the Glastonbury Festival has confirmed that tickets for next year's event will go on sale in October.
• "We have tried very hard to minimise the increase in price on the ticket but we're facing enormous rises in the costs of running this vast show, whilst still recovering from the huge financial impact of two years without a festival because of Covid."
• “He invented a genre, then had the greatest second act come back in rock history.” We want to hear it.
• “There’s nothing like standing on that Global Citizen stage in the middle of Central Park, in my city, with people who love the world enough to show up for it,” she said in a statement.
• For Keys, returning to the festival carries some hometown significance.

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