The bill for VetsAid puts Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr alongside Joe Walsh. To see what their booking means, look at the other four names on the poster. The Killers, The War on Drugs, St. Vincent and Lucius have each been booked for a full set. McCartney and Starr are coming as guests in Walsh’s set. He will have other guests as well, though their names are still to come.
It takes place on Friday, January 29, 2027, at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. This is the tenth VetsAid benefit and tickets went on public sale November 13. The arena describes the event as a five-hour mini-festival, which makes more sense of the lineup than treating it as a conventional concert with one headliner and a short opener. Walsh’s set is one piece of the evening. The organisers haven’t said what he’ll play with McCartney and Starr or when they’ll go on.
Here are the two times to put in the diary. The doors open at 4:30 p.m. and the event starts at 6 p.m., Las Vegas time. That’s an hour and a half to get in before the first music is scheduled to start. For someone travelling to the show, those are the times the venue has given. The five-hour description tells you how much of the evening to set aside, while individual set times are still missing.
There’s another date before any of that. December 20 is the deadline to apply for a VetsAid grant. The arena says the proceeds go to approved veterans’ charities in Nevada. The organisers are already looking for programmes serving veterans and military families there. The community grant category is for smaller organisations incorporated in Nevada. There’s also a category for large or national applicants, and the organisers expect to tell successful applicants in January before the show. In other words, the focus of the benefit is known while the recipients are still being chosen.
Walsh has linked the location to the time he’s spent performing in Las Vegas with the Eagles at Sphere. The Killers bring a hometown act to the bill. The War on Drugs and Lucius have played the benefit before. That mix makes sense for a concert built around a local cause but drawing fans from further away. The guest appearances give the tenth edition its headline, and four full sets tell a ticket holder how much else there is to hear.
