MUSIC NEWS - Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) have announced a new tour for this year; a 2009 tour of North America and Europe, that begins with a show in St.Louis, MO on Wednesday, June 3. The tour's initial North American leg--which has dates in the U.S. and Canada--wraps at in Boston, MA on June 14 (a second North American leg, running August through September, will be announced in the coming weeks). The tour picks up internationally on June 27 in the UK, when CSN will play the 2009 Glastonbury Festival (Neil Young is on the show's bill too, I wonder ???). Other UK stops include July 1, when CSN takes the venerable stage at London's Royal Albert Hall, and then performs shows in: Cork, Ireland (6/29); Manchester, England (7/10) and Edinburgh, Scotland (7/11). The trio's summer European itinerary will also touch down on the Continent for four dates, with highlights including the Museum Plaza in Bonn, Germany (7/1) and The Olympia in Paris, France (7/4).
Squeezed in between the late spring North American and early summer European segments of the road trip, CSN will be inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame on
The 09 tour's launch also is coincides with Rhino Records' June 2 release of CROSBY, STILLS & NASH DEMOS, a single-disc collection of early versions of destined-to-be-classic songs later heard on the group's studio albums and solo titles. The set opens with a January 1969 recording of "Marrakesh Express," goes as far back as '68 with the Stephen Stills solo track "My Love Is A Gentle Thing," and features other rarities including seminal takes on "Almost Cut My Hair," "Chicago" and "Long Time Gone." CSN is currently in the studio, working on a new album with ten-time GRAMMY-winning producer Rick Rubin. Stock up on current CSN cds here.
Throughout changing times and various configurations--David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash have continued to tour and record music together, delivering songs conveying emotional truths and social activism in equal measure. Forty years on from their first live set at Max Yasgur's farm, they are still "three together."
CROSBY, STILLS & NASH 2009 TOUR DATES
NORTH AMERICA JUNE 3 Chaifetz Arena St. Louis, MO 4 Charter One Pavilion Chicago, IL 6 Meadowbrook Detroit, MI 7 Zoo Amphitheatre Toledo, OH 12 Doubleday Field Cooperstown, NY 13 Foxwoods Mashantucket, CT 14 Bank of America Pavilion Boston, MA EUROPE JUNE 27 Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury, England 29 Marquee Cork, Ireland JULY 1 Royal Albert Hall London, England 3 Museum Plaza Bonn, Germany 4 The Olympia Paris, France 6 Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam, Holland 7 Forest National Brussels, Belgium 10 Manchester EN Arena Manchester, England 11 Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh, Scotland
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