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Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit lineup announced
Bridge School Benefit organizers have finally announced the lineup for the 19th annual edition of the acoustic event, which will take place Oct. 29-30 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.
Benefit founder Neil Young --who underwent brain surgery in March--will perform as part of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. The vocalist/guitarist traditionally also opens each show with a short solo set.
The rest of the roster features a mix of old and new, rock and folk, including Norah Jones , Emmylou Harris , Dave Matthews , Good Charlotte , Bright Eyes, Los Lobos and rock-and-roll patriarch Jerry Lee Lewis.
Matthews will perform his solo set on Oct. 30 only, given that he is scheduled to appear at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas as part of the Vegoose festival on Oct. 29.
Since his surgery, Young has played only a handful of concerts, including the Farm Aid benefit earlier this month and a two-night stand at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium in mid-August. The Ryman gigs were caught on film by director Jonathan Demme, who helmed such films as "The Silence of the Lambs" and the Talking Heads concert film "Stop Making Sense." The Oscar-winning director first collaborated with Young on 1993's "Philadelphia," to which the singer-songwriter contributed the Academy Award-nominated title track.
Young's eagerly awaited new CD, "Prairie Wind," will be released on Sept. 27.
The Bridge School concerts benefit the Bridge School, which serves severely speech-impaired children in the San Francisco Bay Area. Young's wife, Pegi, and Jim Forderer--both parents of children with severe speech and physical impairments--co-founded the school in 1986 along with Dr. Marilyn Buzolich.
Tickets for the shows go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. PST Sunday (9/25) via Ticketmaster. (Ticketmaster is liveDaily's parent company.)
