Wednesday 4 December 2013

Local stars celebrate Crosby, Stills and Nash in EMP fete | Concert review

Paul Allen, Stephen Stills, David Crosby and Graham Nash (l-r) at EMP's Founders Award ceremony. (Brady Harvey)
Paul Allen, Stephen Stills, David Crosby and Graham Nash (l-r) at EMP’s Founders Award ceremony. (Brady Harvey)
The finale at this year’s Experience Music Project Founders Award tribute to Crosby, Stills and Nash could not have been more predictable, but it was also appropriate — and magical. EMP’s annual Founders Award raises money for the museum’s youth programs, and each year Paul Allen handpicks a superstar act to honor at the big-ticket gala. Past honorees have included Carlos Santana, Buddy Guy and Ann and Nancy Wilson.
This year’s event Thursday night was the best Founders ceremony yet, perhaps because CSN’s folk rock sensibility fits so perfectly with the current crop of Seattle musicians who toasted them. Over two hours, a dozen local stars — along with visitors like Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jason Mraz and Shawn Colvin — played their favorite CSN songs. Usually tribute shows lag, but this one started great and got better.

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