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Rock music phenomenon Jesse Malin headlines the Queen Jeans Ball, which returns Saturday, August 29.
Dubbed “a gritty troubadour of the streets” by Rolling Stone, Malin has crafted songs that have been covered by the best artists of our times: Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Counting Crows, Green Day, and the list goes on …
Malin is also a rock and roll survivor — in more ways than one. In 2023, the musician suffered a rare spinal stoke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. But that didn’t stop him. Instead, he came back like a champ, and, at the end of the following year, sold out two nights at NYC’s Beacon Theatre, then did the same at London’s Islington Assembly Hall.
Malin will be joined at by Craig Finn of The Hold Steady and Tommy Stinson of The Replacements, two rock heavyweights by any measure of the term.
WXPN listeners are sure to be familiar with music from The Hold Steady as well as tunes from Finn’s most recent solo record, Always Been. And as for Stinson, if there was a Mount Rushmore of ’80s College Rock, The Replacements would be up there, surely, carved in stone.
The Queen Jeans Ball will benefit Donate Delaware, a local charity founded by boxing champion Dave Tiberi, which provides medical supplies and equipment at no cost.