Pearl Jam announced Monday it will headline its 20th anniversary concerts Sept. 3-4 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis.

Also scheduled to perform are the Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Mudhoney, John Doe, Joseph Arthur, Glen Hansard and Liam Finn. All bands are to play both days.

Tickets ($89 reserved, $50 lawn, plus parking and service fees) go on sale May 23 for fans in Pearl Jam’s Ten Club and at 10 a.m. June 4 to the general public. Tickets will be available at the Alpine Valley box office and through Ticketmaster. More information is available at www.pj20.com.

For more on Pearl Jam's 20th anniversary: an interview with Eddie Vedder HERE.

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Pearl Jam is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with a flourish: a Cameron Crowe-directed documentary; reissues of its 1993 and ’94 albums “Vs.” and “Vitalogy”; and a forthcoming festival at an as-yet-unannounced location. 

In addition, the band is in the midst of recording sessions for a new studio album, and some members are still neck-deep in side projects – at least one involving a ukulele, of all things. That would belong to singer Eddie Vedder, whose “Ukulele Songs” solo album is due out May 31. A solo tour brings him to the Chicago Theatre on June 28-29.

"I’ve been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants,” Vedder says. “I need to make room for the bassoon record.”

Eddie Vedder on ukulele? The Pearl Jam singer has long been a devotee of an instrument that ranks pretty far down on the list of iconic rock ‘n’ roll axes. Now he’s committing his ukulele songs – both originals and covers – to a solo album and tour, which will bring him June 28 to the Chicago Theatre.

Tickets ($78) will go on sale at noon April 1 at the Chicago Theatre box office and Ticketmaster. Irish singer Glen Hansard of the Swell Season and the Frames will join Vedder on the tour.

Vedder’s “Ukulele Songs” solo album will be released May 31; the first single, “Longing to Belong,” is available digitally.

Here is the entire itinerary for Vedder’s solo tour:

June 15 Providence, RI: Providence Performing Arts Center
June 16 Boston: Wang Theatre
June 18 Hartford, CT: The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
June 21 New York: Beacon Theatre
June 22 New York: Beacon Theatre
June 25 Philadelphia: Tower Theatre
June 26 Detroit: Fox Theatre
June 28 Chicago: Chicago Theatre
July 1 St. Louis: Fox Theatre
July 2 Minneapolis: Orpheum Theatre
July 5 San Diego: Copley Symphony Hall
July 6 Long Beach, CA: Terrace Theater
July 8 Los Angeles: The Wiltern
July 9 Santa Barbara, CA.: Santa Barbara Bowl
July 11 Oakland: Paramount Theatre
July 14 Portland: Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
July 15 Seattle: Benaroya Hall

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