Rock band Bon Jovi will perform in a free concert in Central Park. The concert is scheduled for July 12th and is part of the leadup to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

However, the New Jersey band lead singer admitted he isn’t too much into baseball. Bon Jovi is “football guy”, as he put it and as he said the world knows him.

"I own an arena team. I live and love football," said the band’s front man at a City Hall announcement on Monday.

Bon Jovi’s band and Major League Baseball will work together to spread 60,000 tickets around the city for the free Central Park performance. The band announced that the only thing that could make them cancel the concert would be the rain.

At the City Hall, Bon Jovi announced that their concert, billed as an "All-Star Concert in Central Park," will be held in conjunction with the MLB All-Star Game. The latter event is scheduled for July 15 at Yankee Stadium.

"We've gotten the chance to bookend what is the most successful tour in the world this year with a free concert for anyone in New York," front man Jon Bon Jovi said at a news conference.

Major Bloomberg also attended the City Hall press conference. He said precautions must and will be taken to protect the park’s lawn. Anti-war militants tried to hold a mass protest in Central Park in 2004 during the Republican National Convention, but they were forbidden to do it because they would have hurt the grass.

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, who managed to win a $50,000 settlement for two groups blocked from protesting, said Bon Jovi will have a government-approved, corporate-sponsored concert on the Great Lawn.

"It belongs to the people. It doesn't belong to Mayor Bloomberg," Verheyden-Hilliard said.

The concert is scheduled to take place on July 12th, at 8 p.m. on the park's Great Lawn and will not be televised. The free tickets will be available beginning July 2nd at baseball parks as well as a series of events throughout New York.