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“Honor the treaties” in Canada, benefit shows

Canada, “Honor the treaties” benefit shows tour itenerary

Jan. 12 in Toronto

Jan. 16 in Winnipeg

Jan. 17 in Regina

Jan. 19 in Calgary.

Supporting act: Diana Krall. Website: http://www.honourtheacfn.ca/ .

Neil Young will perform four benefit concerts in his native Canada to raise funds for a legal defense fund supporting the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in “challenges against oil companies and government that are obstructing their traditional lands and rights”.

Alberta oil sands

Canadian prime minister Redwood ist not amused: “He has a certain group of fans that follow him and it’s good that he’s going on tour again. … nd if he wants to support communities, then that’s a good thing, but it’s certainly not a case where there isn’t work going on, and good productive work going on, in terms of economic benefits and partnership, and that’ll continue”.

When Neil Young visited Fort McMurray, Alta., last year, and compared the oilsands city to Hiroshima, he caused a heated debate.

Here’s more to the debate and controvery that Neil is playing in his native country for First Nations in their fight against horrors like oil sands, tar sands:

Neil Young set to kick off Honour the Treaties tour
Shows are almost sold out, but not everyone is excited about Young’s campaign against oilsands
By Angela Sterritt, CBC News Posted: Jan 10, 2014

One hundred percent of Neil Young’s Honor the Treaties concert proceeds will go to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation’s legal defence fund to fight the oil sands.

Neil Young is kicking off his Honour the Treaties concert tour Sunday at Massey Hall in Toronto, with proceeds from four Canadian dates going to the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation’s legal fight against the expansion of the Jackpine oilsands project.​

The First Nation is gearing up for a major legal fight after the federal government approved the expansion of Shell Canada’s Jackpine mine last month, despite an environmental assessment that said the development will cause irreversible environmental damage.
Shell received the green light from the federal government to expand its 7,500 hectare Jackpine mine to 13,000 hectares.

The company claims the enlarged mine could bring the Alberta and federal governments an estimated $17 billion in royalties and taxes over its life and create an additional 750 full time jobs.

But indigenous and environmental groups say the damage to water, land and animals outweighs any profits the addition to the oilsands site will yield.

>>> read more: cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/neil-young-set-to-kick-off-honour-the-treaties-tour

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Neil Young Set List: 2014-01-10, Carnegie Hall, New York City #4

Day #4, last show at the Carnegie Hall, the pump organ is back.

photo by Trapper

2014-01-10
Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York, USA
Solo

1. From Hank To Hendrix  (acoustic guitar)
2. On The Way Home  (acoustic guitar)
3. Only Love Can Break Your Heart  (acoustic guitar)
4. Love In Mind  (piano)
5. Mellow My Mind  (banjo)
6. Are You Ready For The Country?  (piano)
7. Someday  (piano)
8. Changes  (acoustic guitar)
9. Harvest  (acoustic guitar)
10. Old Man  (acoustic guitar)
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11. Goin' Back   (12 string acoustic guitar)
12. A Man Needs A Maid (piano/synthesizer)
13. Ohio (acoustic guitar)
14. Southern Man  (acoustic guitar)
15. Mr. Soul  (pump organ)
16. Out Of My Mind  (pump organ)
17. Needle Of Death  (acoustic guitar)
18. The Needle And The Damage Done  (acoustic guitar)
19. Harvest Moon  (acoustic guitar)
20. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong  (piano)
21. Journey Through The Past  (piano)
22. Heart Of Gold  (acoustic guitar)
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23. Comes A Time  (acoustic guitar)

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Rolling Stone review of Carnegie first night

Neil Young Stuns With a Spellbinding Carnegie Hall Show
The marathon set featured a wealth of Seventies classics

Neil Young performs at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

By Andy Greene
January 7, 2014 11:30 AM ET

When Neil Young walked onstage for the first of his four-night stand at Carnegie Hall, nobody in the audience had any idea what sort of show he was about to present. His previous theater tour in 2010 was a bizarre (and ultimately unsatisfying) mixture of solo acoustic and solo electric tunes, concentrating on hits and selections from his then-unreleased LP Le Noise. The last time he launched a solo acoustic tour was eleven years ago in Europe, and those crowds heard a complete performance of his rock opera Greendale, which wouldn’t hit shelves for another four months. More recently, he played a set at Farm Aid last year that consisted almost entirely of other people’s songs. If the man’s anything, he’s unpredictable.

Thankfully, Neil Young had no such surprises for the capacity crowd at Carnegie Hall. Instead, he treated them to an absolutely jaw-dropping two hour and 20-minute show that focused largely on his golden period of 1966 to 1978. He only deviated from that era for two songs from 1992’s Harvest Moon, the 1989 obscurity “Someday” and a pair of covers by Phil Ochs and Bert Jansch. The opening notes of classics “Harvest,” “A Man Needs a Maid” and “On the Way Home” sent shockwaves of recognition and joy through the crowd, who then listened to them in near silence. It was, without a doubt, one of the greatest Neil Young shows of the past decade, at least when he wasn’t playing with Crazy Horse.
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Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-stuns-with-a-spellbinding-carnegie-hall-show-20140107

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Neil Young Set List: 2014-01-09, Carnegie Hall- #3

Update – Day 3: “Mr Soul” flew out and 3 other songs came in:

photo by BH

2014-01-09
Carnegie Hall, New York City, New York, USA
Solo

1. From Hank To Hendrix (acoustic guitar)
2. Helpless (acoustic guitar)
3. On The Way Home (acoustic guitar)
4. Only Love Can Break Your Heart (acoustic guitar)
5. Love In Mind (grand piano)
6. Birds (grand piano)
7. Mellow My Mind (banjo)
8. Are You Ready For The Country? (upright piano)
9. Someday (acoustic guitar)
10. Changes (acoustic guitar) [Phils Ochs]
11. Harvest (acoustic guitar)
12. Old Man (acoustic guitar)
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13. Goin' Back (12 string acoustic guitar)
14. A Man Needs A Maid (grand piano/synthesizer)
15. Ohio (acoustic guitar)
16. Southern Man (acoustic guitar)
17. Needle Of Death (acoustic guitar) [Bert Jansch]
18. The Needle And The Damage Done (acoustic guitar)
19. Harvest Moon (acoustic guitar)
20. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (upright piano)
21. After The Gold Rush (upright piano)
22. Journey Through The Past (upright piano)
23. Heart Of Gold (acoustic guitar)
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24. Comes A Time (acoustic guitar)
25. Long May You Run (acoustic guitar)

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Billboard review: Carnegie Hall

Neil Young at Carnegie Hall: Live Review
By Caryn Rose, New York | January 08, 2014 10:30 AM EST

Neil’s voice has changed with the years but still maintains its essential power, which was blissfully well-served by the famous Carnegie Hall acoustics. You wouldn’t think one man and a banjo could fill that cavernous space, but Young had no problem with doing so throughout the entire set. Unlike the audience the previous evening, which by all reports had to be admonished for unnecessary boisterousness, tonight the crowd was content to sit and listen. That might sound like a bad thing for a rock and roll show, but the quiet wasn’t detached; it was engaged and participatory, an audience sitting on the edge of their seat and engulfed in the performance.

(Don’t worry, there were still plenty of “I LOVE YOU, NEIL” yelps throughout the show, and the guys who invoked Neil’s ire on night one by yelling for “Don’t Be Denied” did get at least one bellow in.)

You expect Neil Young to play great guitar, but tonight many of the best moments were on keyboards. “Are You Ready For The Country” was one of those moments: performed on the stand-up piano, it has a loose, honky-tonk feel, but that deliberately casual style hid the precision that was driving the performance. The keyboards were where Neil could experiment a little bit, offering an interesting, 80’s-tinged synthesizer accompaniment to the grand piano for “A Man Needs A Maid” and the quasi-goth pump organ rendition of “Mr. Soul.”

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