Joan Baez, Jack White and Marcus Mumford to Headline ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ Concert

Joan Baez, Jack White, Marcus Mumford and the Avett Brothers are among the performers who will take part in a benefit concert at Town Hall in September celebrating the folk music of the 1960s and promoting the soundtrack for the Joel and Ethan Coen movie “Inside Llewyn Davis,” organizers announced on Monday.

A portion of the proceeds will go to support the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a struggling nonprofit created by Congress to underwrite efforts to safeguard music and radio archives.

The concert was put together by T Bone Burnett, the Americana producer behind the highly successful soundtrack for the Coen brothers film “Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?” Mr. Burnett and the Coens organized a tour for that record, too, and it eventually won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002.

Mr. Burnett said the concert at Town Hall will feature live performances of the music in “Inside Llewyn Davis,” as well as songs from the early 1960s that inspired the film, based loosely on the life of the guitarist and singer Dave Van Ronk, who died in 2002.

“We decided to do a concert to bring together the community that had done the music,” Mr. Burnett said. “So there would be some synergy between the music and the film.”

The lineup is heavy with young stars in the folk and Americana genre. It includes Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Lake Street Dive, Colin Meloy of the Decemberists, Milk Carton Kids, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes and the Punch Brothers. “The idea was to round up the best of these young musicians to come up and do a show around this music,” Mr. Burnett said. Among the older musicians slated to appear are Patti Smith, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings. Actors in the film will also perform, including Oscar Isaac, who plays the title role.

The film follows a week in the life of a young folk singer in Greenwich Village in the winter 1961 as he struggles for recognition. The soundtrack â€" to be released on Nonesuch Records on Nov. 12 â€" is the fourth collaboration between T Bone Burnett and the Coens, with Mr. Mumford as an associate producer. In addition to 12 songs recorded for the film, the soundtrack will include a previously unreleased Bob Dylan track called “Farewell,” which was recorded during the sessions for “The Times They Are A-Changin’.”

The concert will take place Sept. 29: tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster at noon on Aug. 21.