Light Up The Blues Concert w/ Stephen Stills, Neil Young + Others: April 21st

Stephen Stills & Neil Young
Light Up The Blues 3rd Annual Concert (2015)
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Stephen Stills "Light Up The Blues" is an annual autism awareness benefit concert.

This year's concert will include Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Burt Bacharch, Judy Collins, Chris Stills, Jack Black, and Christina Applegate. The event's house band will feature a reunion of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers with guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, drummer Steve Ferrone, bassist Zev Katz, guitarist Kevin McCormick and pianist Russell Walden. The show will be held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on April 21st.

From Stephen Stills Teams Up With Neil Young For Autism Benefit | Rolling Stone by Andy Greene:

"The reason we started Light Up The Blues was out of the void of me not having to be micromanaging Henry so much, as he was finally in a good place," Stills' wife Krisen tells Rolling Stone. "Stephen and I wanted to give back to families that don’t have time and resources to make their kid's life a full-time job with lots of overtime."

Last year was the first time they didn't hold a concert since they started the organization. "Neil [Young] stopped by our house one day last year," says Krisen. "He said, 'Stephen, man, we gotta do Light Up The Blues again.'" Stills couldn't have agreed more. "He said, 'Look, I'm out of the Bridge School. And now it's over to you,'" says Stephen. "I watched how he did the Bridge School benefits and I got great lessons from it."

Information on tickets here.

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