After Nirvana reunion in LA, Dave Grohl added to SNL Anniversary Concert

Part of Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary celebration, ‘SNL50: The Homecoming Concert’ happens February 14 at Radio City Music Hall and features a cavalcade of music stars who’ve performed on the show in the past, including Lady Gaga, David Byrne, Eddie Vedder, Bad Bunny, Jack White, DEVO, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and lots more.

There were a few SNL mainstays that seemed oddly absent, one of which was Dave Grohl, who played the show twice with Nirvana and nine times (so far) with Foo Fighters, not to mention various other cameo appearances. Maybe him not being on the lineup was because he has been shying away from the spotlight since it was revealed in September he’d had a child out of wedlock. After a few months of laying low, though, he is now back, having played a Nirvana reunion with Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear as part of the LA FireAid benefit last week with help from Kim Gordon, St Vincent, Joan Jett, and Grohl’s daughter, Violet. And he has now been added to the SNL50 Concert promotional materials. Watch the new promo for it below.

You can also see Grohl in Questlove’s new documentary Ladies and Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music where he talks about, among other things, telling Christopher Walken to put the emphasis on “Fighters,” not “Foo,” when introducing them in on the show in 2003.

St. Vincent, meanwhile, shouted out Grohl while accepting the Best Alternative Music Performance for “Flea” at the 2025 Grammy Awards. (It was one of three Grammys she won this year.) He plays on the song which beat out nominees Kim Gordon (“Bye Bye”), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (“Song of the Lake”), Fontaines D.C. (“Starburster”), and Cage the Elephant (“Neon Pill”). You can watch that acceptance speech below.