On October 16, at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom, both Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel will be performing during the Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama's fundraiser.

The tickets to the event, at which Obama himself will be present, are said to be priced at a starting $500. Premiere seating is estimated at $2,500 per person, while exclusive lounge seats will cost $10,000.

The show will take place only one day after Barack Obama ends his final debate with John McCain, the Republican Party’s nominee for the presidential elections in November.

Barack Obama is a junior United States Senator from Illinois and the first African American to be nominated to run for president of the United States by a major political party.

In the elections that are scheduled to take place on November 4, 2008, he will be facing GOP nominee John McCain, a senior United States Senator from Arizona.

American songwriter, singer and guitarist Bruce Springsteen, 59, is a household name in the music industry who, throughout his career, has won eighteen Grammy Awards and also an Academy Award for Best Song.

On February 1, 2009, he is scheduled to perform during the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIII.

The star announced his endorsement of U.S. Senator Barack Obama back in April this year.

As for Billy Joel, he is a 59-year-old American pianist and singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1970s, after releasing his first hit song called "Piano Man" in 1973.

The six-time Grammy Award winner has sold over 150 million albums worldwide.