CLEARWATER - Crosby, Stills & Nash return to Ruth Eckerd Hall on Saturday, Aug. 22, 8 p.m. Ticket sales begin at noon on Friday, May 29.
Reserved tickets priced at $129.50, $93.50 and $62.50 will be available at the Ruth Eckerd Hall Ticket Office located at 1111 McMullen Booth Road in Clearwater; by calling 727-791-7400 or by logging onto www.rutheckerdhall.com. The Ruth Eckerd Hall Ticket Office is open Monday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and one hour prior to show time.
Four decades after their first concert together in front of the multitudes at Woodstock, Crosby, Stills & Nash take to the road again for four months of dates in the United States, Canada, Europe and the UK. The group – David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash will perform at Ruth Eckerd Hall in August for the first time since their performance in April 2003.
The tour kicks off next month with a June 3 show in St. Louis, Mo., the day after Rhino Records’ release of Demos. Featuring 12 previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1968 and 1971, Demos spotlights destined-to-be-classic songs later heard on CSN’s group and solo titles. The disc opens with the trio harmonizing on Marrakesh Express, recorded four months before the song came out on the group’s self-titled 1969 debut LP. Other rarities include seminal takes on Almost Cut My Hair, Chicago, Love The One You’re With, Sleep Song and Long Time Gone.
Just after the tour’s initial North American leg wraps in Boston on June 14, CSN will be inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame (SHOF) on June 18 in New York City. The honor—which follows their 1997 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—recognizes CSN as a group, and each member as individual solo artists. It also acknowledges the groundbreaking music each created prior to forming CSN: The Byrds (Crosby), Buffalo Springfield (Stills) and The Hollies (Nash). This convergence of rock ‘n roll pedigrees led to CSN becoming known as music’s first “supergroup.”
CSN’s music became a cornerstone of rock ‘n roll with their self-titled 1969 debut LP, now one of Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” 1970’s Déjà Vu, another “500 Greatest”, followed the first album from the group’s four-man line-up with Neil Young (CSN&Y). Ever since, through changing times and various configurations, Crosby, Stills & Nash have continued to tour and record as “three together.”
