Stephen Stills, Neil Young Set Harvest Moon Benefit Concert
by Best Classic Bands Staff
Stephen Stills and Neil Young (Photo via Light Up the Blues)
Stephen Stills and Neil Young will headline Harvest Moon, a benefit concert to be held on October 5, 2024, in Lake Hughes, Calif. The daytime event will be held at The Painted Turtle Camp, a non-profit providing children living with serious medical conditions a traditional camp experience free of charge. The concert, announced on September 4, will also feature the ensemble Masanga Marimba with more artists to be announced. It will also benefit The Bridge School, which provides free education to children with severe speech and physical impediments. For years, the latter offered an annual all-star benefit concert led by Young. The school was co-founded by his former wife, Pegi Young, who died in 2019. Young and his three-time bandmate (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and the Stills Young Band) have regularly shared the stage for charitable endeavors.
Tickets for the concert are priced at $325 and $275 including on-site parking and go on sale September 6 at 10 a.m. local time here. There will be no same day ticket purchases. Gates for the outdoor event open at 12N.
Watch Stills and Young perform Buffalo Springfield’s “Bluebird” at the 2023 edition of Stills’ “Light Up the Blues” benefit concert
In late June, Young canceled the remaining 2024 dates of his tour with Crazy Horse. At the time, he cited illness among the performers. Two months later, in late August, he acknowledged, “I just woke up one morning on the [tour] bus and I said, ‘I can’t do this, I gotta stop.’ And it was like, I felt sick when I thought of going on-stage. My body was telling me, ‘You gotta stop.’ So I listened to my body.” Young turns 79 on November 12. The only other date on his performance calendar is the 2024 edition of Farm Aid, which takes place on September 21 in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Stills hasn’t toured in years, opting instead for one-off appearances, often for charities. He turned 79 on January 3.
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2 Comments so far
Jump into a conversationI would love these two to do what McCartney did back in the 90s – a series of programs playing and discussing music that they and others created. And guests . . .
Much respect for the initiative, but why do the tickets have to cost this much? It prevents many low-income fans from supporting the benefit.
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