RED BANK: TWO NIGHTS OF PEACE ‘N MUSIC
Woodstock-era icon Graham Nash takes to the Basie boards on Saturday…while fellow festival veterans, the not-so-sly Family Stone, headline a 70s Rock and Funk Fest on Sunday.
One weekend past the 46th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock festival, the Count Basie Theatre offers audiences here on the greater Green an opportunity to catch up with several veterans of those “Three Days of Peace and Music” — all in climate-controlled comfort, and with no requirement to get all muddy about it.
The shared experience begins Saturday night at 8 pm, with a very rare solo-tour appearance by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Graham Nash. Spotlighting material from a massive career-cataloguing box set, the British-born singer/songwriter and activist who first invaded the colonies as a member of The Hollies — and who homesteaded the Laurel Canyon sound through his culture-defining work with CSN (and sometimes Y) — is expected to lend his signature skills to songs that range from “On a Carousel,” “Marrakesh Express,” “Our House” and “Just a Song Before I Go,” to solo stuff like “Chicago” and a possible preview of a work-in-progress studio project. Reserve tickets ($27.50 – $73.50) right here — and flip the record over for more.