Foo Fighters perform at ‘Celebrating America’ special inauguration

Dave Grohl understands how hard teachers work: As Foo Fighters frontman said at Joe Biden’s special prime-time opening ceremony on Wednesday Jan.20 Celebrating America, his mother, Virginia, has been a teacher in a public school for 35 years. She was “a mentor to her students, remembered long after they graduated,” Grohl said.

For the special, the group was introduced by Mackenzie Adams, a kindergarten teacher who has gone viral for her high-energy virtual classes amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This next song is for Mackenzie and all of our steadfast teachers who continue to enlighten the students of our country every day,” Grohl said of “Times Like These”, the all too appropriate song from 2003 from the band’s fourth album, One by one.