Kevin Bacon on Mounting CBS Concert Special Amid Pandemic: "It Was a House of Cards" Tommaso Boddi/WireImage The Dec. 15 fundraiser, benefitting NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and WhyHunger, features co-hosts Bacon and Eve with L.L. Cool J, Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, Bon Jovi, Maren Morris and Sheryl Crow. Good things take time. That’s how Kevin Bacon describes the process of putting together the concert special Play On: Celebrating the Power of Music to Make Change, airing Dec. 15 on CBS and CBS All Access. Together with a team of producers, they’ve spent the bulk of the pandemic planning and coordinating the logistics of a complicated, multi-city special set inside iconic venues in Los Angeles, New York and Nashville.