Billy Corgan #HPStrong Charity Concert Guests To Include Perry Farrell

HIGHLAND PARK, IL — Special guests at Billy Corgan's charity concert to benefit victims of the July 4 Highland Park parade shooting will include Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell as well as performers booked at the Lollapalooza festival he founded.

The "Together and Together Again" concert is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Madame Zuzu's, 1876 1st St., in Highland Park.

It will be livestreamed for free on YouTube, with an opportunity for viewers to contribute money to the Highland Park Community Foundation's July 4th Shooting Response Fund.

All proceeds from art and clothing produced for the concert will also go to the fund.

Also joining Corgan will be Bob Moses, a Canadian electronic music duo booked to perform Saturday at Lollapalooza — the festival Farrell first founded in 1991.

Other special guests include Lincoln Trio, a chamber music group; and the father and daughter musicians Billy and Sierra Swan, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Sierra Swan has previously contributed guest vocals and toured with the Smashing Pumpkins, and Corgan has produced one of her albums.

Smashing Pumpkins drummer and jazz saxophonist Frank Catalano were previously announced as guests.

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Corgan, founder of the Smashing Pumpkins, and his partner, fashion designer Chloe Mendel, reopened their tea shop in September 2020 at its current location, about a block from the site of the mass shooting at the city's Independence Day parade.

Like 144 other downtown Highland Park business, the cafe was forced to shutter for nearly a week after July 4 during the investigation of the state's deadliest mass shooting in nearly a century. When it reopened, Corgan and Mendel announced plans for the charity concert.

Corgan, a Chicago native and Highland Park resident for nearly two decades, said the community, because of its level of investment and tradition of anti-gun violence activism, may be able to shift the national conversation about gun violence.

“On the national level, I think you become motivated because you start to personally connect to the fact that not only have we lived with the scourge of gun violence in the Chicago area for the last decade or so, but also the inability of any particular agency to somehow curtail it,” Corgan told Daily North Shore. “Combined with the fact that now we have this personal focus, you put those pieces together and you say, ‘I want to be part of something that brings people together so that we can start to have a deeper conversation in this country about how we’re going to stop it’.”

Donations can be made to the July 4 Shooting Response Fund through the Together and Together again livestream or through the Highland Park Community Foundation's website.

The Highland Park Community Foundation on Wednesday announced the formation of a community committee called "Together Highland Park Unidos" to manage the distribution of money from the fund to victims and local nonprofit organizations supporting victims and the larger community. According to foundation officials, the process for submitting claims will be published next month, claims will need to be submitted by Sept. 7 and victim funds are expected to be distributed in October.

“The senseless gun violence that struck our community impacts residents of other communities as well, including the numerous residents killed and injured over the same 4th of July weekend in the City of Chicago," said Betsy Brint, who chairs the new committee. “The resources of the Fund are focused on victims impacted by the violence at our parade, but that focus does not diminish our understanding that what Highland Park experienced in the span of a few minutes pervades the lives of countless residents in Chicago and across our country.”

WATCH: Together and Together Again YouTube Livestream from 8 p.m.