Dave Grohl is set to perform at Saturday Night Live’s 50th-anniversary concert in less than two weeks.
The ‘SNL 50: The Homecoming Concert,’ hosted by Jimmy Fallon, will be on February 14 at 8 p.m. ET at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, per Billboard. It will stream live on Peacock. This concert is part of SNL’s 50th anniversary celebrations, which also featured two documentaries in January.
On January 30, SNL announced the performers for their upcoming concert, including Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, and Miley Cyrus. Other acts on the bill include Post Malone, Jelly Roll, the Backstreet Boys, Arcade Fire, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Chris Martin, David Byrne, DEVO, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Mumford & Sons, The B-52s, and The Roots.
More performers will be announced, and Grohl is confirmed to join the lineup. Although not listed in the original announcement, a promo video for the event later revealed that Grohl would perform. He’s the only artist shown in the video not listed in the initial lineup, and the video also didn’t mention Brittany Howard, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, or Robyn.
Grohl has kept a low profile since September 2024 when he revealed he had a new baby with someone outside his marriage to Jordyn Blum. Hellfest founder later Ben Barbaud shared that Foo Fighters canceled their 2025 summer tour.
Barbaud told Le Parisien that Muse will take Foo Fighters’ spot as a headliner at Hellfest. He explained, “They were offered to me on a platter. A month ago, I was offered to program them with a handful of other European festivals. Foo Fighters having canceled their summer tour, Muse was called in as reinforcements.”
“I accepted because I was missing a headliner on Friday and because the Hellfest audience is more and more open. With age, I too have matured, I am less sectarian. I created this festival for the love of punk, hardcore, and at the beginning for the purists. But today, I prefer to shock them than to always do the same artists,” he added.
Recently, the surviving members of Nirvana played together at FireAid, performing four classic songs. This was Grohl’s first time back on stage since announcing he had a child outside his marriage.
