Throwback Concert: Neil Young at Shakespeare Festival Theatre 1971

Throwback Concert: Neil Young at Shakespeare Festival Theatre 1971

99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our first year on the air: 1971.

That year Neil Young hit the road for a solo tour that came to The American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy in Stratford. Unfortunately The Shakespeare Theatre is no longer around (it sadly burned to the ground in January 2019), but the recording of this show lives on. In March 2021 Neil Young released a live album and concert film entitled “Young Shakespeare” from that ’71 show in Stratford.

 

Neil Young

Tour: 1971 Journey Through The Past Solo Tour

The American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy – Stratford, Connecticut

Friday January 22, 1971

Ticket Price: $6.50

Personnel: Neil Young (guitar, piano, vocals)

Setlist*

  1. On The Way Home (Buffalo Springfield song)
  2. Tell Me Why
  3. Old Man
  4. Journey Through The Past
  5. Love In Mind
  6. A Man Needs a Maid
  7. Heart of Gold
  8. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
  9. There’s a World
  10. The Needle and the Damage Done
  11. Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song)
  12. See The Sky About to Rain
  13. Down By The River (Neil Young & Crazy Horse cover)

*source: setlist.fm

 

Check out these live performances of Neil Young in Stratford