So Many Musicians Have Performed for the Harris/Walz Campaign in the Past Week—Here’s an Overview

The list of celebrities who have endorsed Vice President and 2024 Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has just kept growing since she launched her campaign in July, with everyone from Kerry Washington and Jennifer Aniston to Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and Beyoncé throwing their significant cultural weight behind the Harris/Walz ticket.

In the final days before November 5, such pledges of support have reached a fever pitch, as musical acts ranging from Gracie Abrams to Bon Jovi and Lady Gaga have joined Harris at her last few rallies. Here, a roundup:

On October 28, Rogers—who is currently on tour supporting her third studio album, Don’t Forget Me—appeared at a Harris/Walz rally in Ann Arbor, Michigan, addressing a crowd of some 21,000 people. “These are such wild and unprecedented times, and the energy feels so high and the future feels so uncertain, and I don’t always know what to do with that feeling, but there is something, to me, that is greater than fear, and that’s action,” Rogers said onstage. “In these next eight days, you can fight back against the fear of Donald Trump and everything he creates. You can take action against his darkness. You can choose the light.” Cue: a flawless transition into her 2019 hit song “Light On.”

Abrams—who is presently touring her second studio album, The Secret of Us, and supporting Taylor Swift on the final stops of her Eras Tour—took a moment to appear and perform at a Harris/Walz rally in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 30. “For many of us here onstage and in this crowd tonight, this is either the first or second time that we’ve had the privilege of voting in a presidential election, and as we know, we’ve inherited a world that is struggling, and it’s easy to feel disconnected and disillusioned,” Abrams said. “The truth is, our participation and our vote have never been more crucial. We are all here tonight because Kamala Harris has spent her life championing the values and the issues that we care about. She is the right leader at a very tricky time, and we could not be luckier.” She went on to sing “I Love You, I’m Sorry,” “Risk,” and “Free Now.”

The 28-year-old musician, who recently wrapped the first leg of her Big Ideas tour, also appeared in Madison, where she performed an accoustic version of her song “Cinderella” and a rousing cover of “Piece of My Heart” in the style of Janis Joplin. “As a musician, I travel around the country playing music in cities just like this one. For an hour and a half at each of my shows, I sing at the top of my lungs, I kick my legs high into the air, and I pour my entire soul out onto the stage, all in an effort to provide a safe space for people to be together and to authentically be themselves,” she said. “That’s how I think living in America should feel for everyone, at all times—a place where we feel safe, accepted, and free. And that is why I’m here today to support our future president, Kamala Harris, in her efforts to create this safe space for us again.”

After Berninger and Dessner sang “Bloodbuzz Ohio” and “I Need My Girl” for the crowd in Madison—the latter, while sporting one of those viral Harris/Walz camo hats—Berninger introduced the final song of their set this way: “We have one more song—we wrote this a long time ago—it’s called ‘Fake Empire.’ It’s starting to feel a lot less fake lately, especially here tonight.”

During a foot-stomping set in Madison—which included performances of “The Cave,” “Little Lion Man,” “Awake My Soul,” and “I Will Wait”—the band’s lead singer, Marcus Mumford, took the mic to urge the crowd to vote. “I know it might not sound like it, because I grew up in England, but I was born in America... and last week it was my great privilege to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be president and vice president of the United States of America,” he said. “I would encourage you to get with your mates, make a voting plan, and go out and vote, because every vote will matter.”

On November 1, GloRilla was joined by fellow rappers MC Lyte and Flo Milli at a “When We Vote We Win” rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the likes of Cardi B and Keegan-Michael Key also gave speeches. MC Lyte was the first up, performing versions of “God Said Lyte,” “Stop, Look, Listen” “Make a Livin,” and “Cold Rock a Party.” Flo Milli then took the stage to do “Conceited” and “Never Lose Me” before GloRilla (and a few back-up dancers) performed “HOLLON,” “Yeah Glo!”, and “TGIF”—the latter, a particular favorite of Rihanna’s. A few days earlier, GloRilla had formally endorsed Harris for president on social media, citing “a woman’s right to choose” and protections for the LGBTQIA+ community among her rationale.

On November 2, Jon Bon Jovi, Khalid, Brittney Spencer, and The War and Treaty supported Harris and Walz at a rally in Charlotte—the final day of early voting in North Carolina. Alongside The War and Treaty, Bon Jovi performed “The People’s House,” a song that he wrote shortly after the January 6 insurrection, as well as “Living on a Prayer.” (Two days later, Bon Jovi would show up for the campaign once again, this time singing in Detroit.) Earlier at the Charlotte rally, Spencer performed her songs “Compassion” and “Guitar Lady,” while Khalid performed his songs “Location” and “Better.”

At a Harris/Walz event in Pittsburgh on November 4, singer and Oscar-nominated actor Andra Day was among the musical guests, performing her songs “Empty” and “Rise Up,” as well as covers of “God Bless the Child” and “Rock With You.” “I love women in positions of power,” Day told the crowd in her introduction to “God Bless the Child,” a song first recorded by Billie Holiday in 1941. “I love women who fight because that’s what women do constantly. If you look at all of these pivotal moments throughout history, they would not have happened without women.”

At the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on November 4, Aguilera delivered a spirted performance of “Fighter,” telling the audience—many members of which were waiving Harris/Walz signage—“Tonight, I’m here in honor of the people who have fought to give us the privilege to be heard. Let’s raise our voices and vote for freedom…We’ll never look back.”

Later on in Pittsburgh, Perry took the stage to perform her songs “Dark Horse,” “Part of Me,” and “Firework,” as well as a cover of “The Greatest Love of All.”

“Four years ago…Orlando and I, we welcomed our daughter, Daisy, and she is the reason I am voting for Kamala Harris,” Perry told the crowd. “I’ve known Kamala since before she was a senator. I’ve always known her to fight for the most vulnerable, to speak up for the voiceless, to protect our rights as women to make decisions about our own bodies. I know she will protect my daughter’s future, and your children’s future, and our families’ future.”

On November 4, following remarks from Gov. Josh Shapiro, Fat Joe, and performances of “Pégate,” “Livin’ la Vida Loca,” and “La Copa de la Vida” by Ricky Martin, Lady Gaga took the stage during a rally in Philadelphia, singing a stripped-down cover of “God Bless America.”

“For more than half this country’s life, women didn’t have a voice, yet we raised children, we held our families together, we supported men as they made the decisions,” Gaga said afterward. “But tomorrow, women will be a part of making this decision. Today, I am holding in my heart all the tough, tenacious women who made me who I am. I cast my vote for someone who will be a president for all, for all Americans. And now Pennsylvania it’s your turn. The country is depending on you, so tomorrow let’s make sure all your voices are heard.”