Billy Corgan To Perform Show At Madame Zuzu's To Benefit Victims Of July 4 Parade Shooting

HIGHLAND PARK, IL — Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is set to perform a free concert to benefit victims of the mass shooting at the Highland Park July 4th parade.

The Together and Together Again charity show is scheduled to be livestreamed from Madame Zuzu's at 8 p.m. on July 27, with performances from Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, Jazz saxophonist Frank Catalano and other special guests including "other parts of the Pumpkins family," Corgan announced.

"There are so many people here affected by this tragedy," Corgan said in a video on social media. "It's very close to our hearts and we hope you'll participate and support us as well."

Corgan and his partner, clothing designer Chole Mendel, are both residents of Highland Park, where they together raise their young children and operate Madame Zuzu's, a plant-based tea house and performance space at 1876 1st St., about a block from the site of last week's mass shooting.

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The fundraiser will benefit the Highland Park Community Foundation's July 4th Highland Park Shooting Response Fund, with all contributions to go directly to victims, survivors or the organizations that support them.

Charitable donations to the fund can be made through the concert's YouTube livestream. All proceeds from sales of t-shirts and posters, with optional autographs, featuring artwork from Gary Basemen will also be donated directly to the foundation's response fund.

"For those of you that don't know, Highland Park is our home," Mendel said in a trailer video for the concert. "We look forward to coming together virtually and helping those in need as we heal through music together."

Madam Zuzu's first opened on Roger Williams Avenue in the former Ravinia Post Office building in September 2012, where it operated until March 2018. It reopened at its current, larger uptown location in September 2020.

"Our business model is simple," Corgan said in a statement at the time, "healthy living combined with an open source venue for the arts, where everyone in our community can gather and share."

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