METALLICA To Play Benefit Concert In Support Of Marin History Museum In September
June 11, 2009, 15 years ago
Paul Liberatore from Marinij.com is reporting:
In a decision sure to reverberate through the local music community, the Marin History Museum has pulled out of a highly touted deal to establish a Marin Rocks exhibit in a downtown San Rafael storefront owned by the Masonic Lodge.
It's now unclear where the rock history exhibit will end up, but history museum officials have promised to open it in another location on San Rafael's Fourth Street next spring.
And, in a major boost for the Marin Rocks project, James Hetfield, frontman and co-founder of METALLICA, has announced that the superstar band will play a benefit concert for the Marin History Museum in September.
In a video screened at the history museum's $200-a-ticket Marin Rocks gala Saturday night at the Osher Marin Jewish Community Center, Hetfield, currently on an international tour with the band, mentioned "the third week in September" as a possible date for the concert.
It would be the first show in Marin by the heavy metal supergroup. A likely venue is the 2,000-seat Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, the county's largest concert hall.
"We want to keep the flame growing and flowing," Hetfield said, appearing in the video with Dave Navarro of JANE'S ADDICTION.Hetfield and Metallica's co-founder, drummer Lars Ulrich, live in Marin and have school-age children.
"Metallica very much supports the 'Marin Rocks' project, and especially the educational programs to be offered for our youth," said Merry Alberigi, the Marin History Museum's executive director. "They have kids in school here in Marin County and they want to give back."
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