On Sunday, September 25, 2016, performance venues across the nation – including ONCE and Sally O’Brien’s Bar and Grill right here in Somerville – will be remembering the forgotten victims of America’s gun violence epidemic with The Concert Across America, a series of live events from coast to coast.

Nationally spearheaded by Massachusetts-based Stop Handgun Violence (SHV), Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence and dozens of other organizations committed to reducing gun violence, The Concert Across America to End Gun Violence will be historic and has now grown to more than 300 concerts and events scheduled for September 25 in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Minneapolis, Austin, Seattle, Portland, Ore. and Santa Barbara.

Among the historic 300-plus events being hosted by cities, large and small, there will be 150 faith-based events at regularly scheduled services that include songs of remembrances.

The Concert Across America will take place on September 25, the date designated by Congress in 2007 as a Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. This nationwide event will bring together a network of organizations, activists and artists with the dual goals of keeping guns out of dangerous hands and making the issue of illegal guns top of mind for members of Congress, the presidential candidates and the American people as they go to the polls in November 2016. Boston was the first city to announce, spearheaded by Stop Handgun Violence at stophandgunviolence.org.

Locally, ONCE Somerville, 156 Highland Ave., will be kicking off their event at 4:00 p.m., and scheduled performers include Abbie Barrett & Band, Magen Tracy & the Missed Connections, Lily Black, Ghosts & Shadows, Boston Rock Opera, HarborLights, Angry Toddlers, and Matt Heaton & the Electric Heaters. Advance tickets available at http://www.ticketfly.com. $12 – $15.

Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave., begins its event at 12:00 p.m. and runs until 5:00 p.m., featuring the Shy Five and other local talent to be announced at a later date.

The local organizers will choose to fundraise for a designated local gun violence prevention (GVP) partner or for a local domestic violence shelter as one of its goals.

For more information visit concertacrossamerica.org.