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Pearl Jam celebrates 20th anniversary

Rock band celebrates anniversary of their debut album with concerts, documentary and book.

This will be a busy fall for rock band Pearl Jam, as they celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Ten, with a concert tour, documentary and band biography, reports Billboard.

The North American tour kicks off on Labor Day weekend (September 3-4) in East Troy, Wisconsin, where the band will play the Alpine Valley Music Theatre. Other major acts scheduled to appear at the festival include the Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age, Mudhoney, Joseph Arthur, X’s John Doe, Liam Finn and Glen Hansard. Tickets go on sale May 23 for fan club members and June 4 for the general public.

Following the festival, the band heads north of the border for a ten-concert tour in Canada. They begin September 7 in Montreal and end September 25 in Vancouver. Fan club members can purchase tickets beginning May 24, with sales opening to the public on May 27.

In October, the band will premiere its new documentary, Pearl Jam 20, directed by long-time friend Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous). The show airs October 21 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on PBS.

Also out this fall, the band has a new biography, Pearl Jam Twenty. The book was written by Jonathan Cohen and Mark Wilkerson, with foreword by Crowe.