Dave Grohl teamed up with Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello and other famous musicians to perform “When the Saints Go Marching In” with New Orleans's Preservation Hall Jazz Band to raise funds for the Preservation Hall Foundation. Grohl took on the tambourine, while McCartney played the trumpet and Costello sang.
The performance was part of Saturday night's (June 20th) “Round Midnight Preserves” livestream, which also featured Grohl and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's take on “Come With Me To New Orleans,” as well as Grohl's solo acoustic version of “Best Of You.”
Grohl also spoke about recording the song “In The Clear” at Preservation Hall with the help of the Jazz Band for the 2014 LP Sonic Highways. He recalled, “I'm looking at all these beautiful paintings on the wall and these lightning fixtures and pews that had been there for decades. I'm thinking, 'We're going to bust this place.' It was exciting in that experiment.”
Sonic Highways was recorded at different historical music sites around the country and was the subject of an HBO documentary series. Grohl told us at the time that he was amazed at the response: “People come up to me on the street all day long and say, 'I love Sonic Highways' and 'Thank you for Sonic Highways', but I've been so busy doing other things that it's hard for me to imagine millions of people actually watching this show that started with a really crazy idea.”
Other artists who performed during Saturday night's event either live or through archival clips included Dave Matthews, Beck and more.