Common performs at Global Green USA’s 12th annual pre-Oscar party at AVALON Hollywood on February 18, 2015. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Global Green)

Common performs at Global Green USA’s 12th annual pre-Oscar party at AVALON Hollywood on February 18, 2015. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Global Green)

Common and The National are co-headlining a free concert at the 9:30 Club next week, but tickets are gone now and most people never stood a chance at getting them.

Two days ago, Planned Parenthood announced the Show Up! concert, slated for the day before the presidential inauguration. Planned Parenthood said it was organizing the event along with All Access, a national concert series that emerged last summer to galvanize people around supporting reproductive health care and abortion rights.

“On the eve of the Presidential Inauguration, we plan to send a clear message to the incoming administration that millions of people across this country are prepared to fight attacks on reproductive health care and abortion services,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in a release.

But the release failed to mention exactly how the public could get the free tickets. Instead it said that “limited tickets to Show Up are free of charge and available through partnering organizations”—without actually naming those groups.

DCist reached out to Planned Parenthood yesterday for clarification, but the organization didn’t respond.

Meanwhile, some people got answers elsewhere.

DCist did reach Leah Jones, executive administrator at SisterSong Women Of Color Reproductive Justice Collective in Atlanta. Monica Simpson, SisterSong’s executive director, is the concert’s mistress of ceremonies.

According Jones, each partnering organization would be given a certain number of tickets to distribute, as stated in the release. Once the organization reserved tickets for staffers, people from the general public could be added to the organization’s guest list. However, the number of tickets allotted to SisterSong had yet to be confirmed by Planned Parenthood. So even if people got their names on SisterSong’s list, access wouldn’t be guaranteed.

And today, a press officer at Planned Parenthood, confirmed to DCist that distribution process and even named all of 14 organizations with access (including the ACLU, NARAL, The Center for Reproductive Rights, and Whole Woman’s Health). But the officer also said that there aren’t any tickets left. The 9:30 Club can hold 1,200 people.

This post has been updated.

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