Graham Nash says “the world is in such peril. Most religions are being taken over by people who want to kill their neighbors. I find it so unreligious to kill people in the name of God. But we have to start by first taking care of things at home.” And so, at the invitation of Bishop John Chane of of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Nash and David Crosby are going to round up as many musicians as they can for a concert on Pray for Peace Day on October 16th at the National Cathedral.
The concert is a short break from the tour that brings them to the Borgata in Atlantic City on Saturday. A good deal of the program will undoubtedly focus on music you’ve heard before – “Marrakesh Express,” “Teach Your Children,” “Military Madness,” “Chicago”/”We Can Change the World,” and “Immigration Man” – but Nash hints there will be some tracks from the CD he is working on.
When performing with Neil Young and Stephen Stills, the crew has been a supergroup since 1968 – a band known as much for its political activism as its distinctive harmonies. As charter members of Woodstock Nation, they helped globalize what folk-rockers had been singing about for years.
“We’ve never shied away from social issues,” Nash insists.
Indeed, only a year ago CSN&Y mounted a Freedom of Speech tour that helped support Young’s CD “Living With War,” a blistering attack on the Bush administration. The tour drew more than its share of protests from people who preferred to hear them play, not preach.
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