Live from Laurel Canyon - Bartlesville Community Concert Assoc.

"Live from Laurel Canyon: Songs & Stories of American Folk Rock" pays homage to the musical legacy of a Los Angeles suburb where a Who's Who of music icons lived, worked and played. The evening will feature songs from The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Carole King, James Taylor, The Mamas & the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills & Nash, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Brown, Jim Morrison, Neil Young and others with a half-century influence on pop and rock. Laurel Canyon shoots upward from an intersection with Sunset Boulevard, eventually ending at Mulholland Drive. In the mid-1960s it became the place to be for artists and musicians harboring a folk background, but looking for additional inspiration. Artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell came from Canada, while New Yorker Carole King, North Carolina boy James Taylor, Britton Graham Nash, and a host of others descended on the canyon to create, during a 10-year period, a body of work that perhaps remains unmatched anywhere. All these people were neighbors. They hung out together, wrote songs together and rehearsed together. Joni Mitchell drew album covers and wrote songs for CSN&Y. Graham Nash composed "Our House" while living in Mitchell's home. Jackson Browne began and Glenn Frey finished what would become The Eagles first hit, "Take It Easy." Neil Young composed some of his biggest songs in the canyon, both as a solo artist and with Buffalo Springfield. The evening’s performance will focus on the period between 1965 and 1975. The bulk of the music should be familiar, but to strengthen the context, each song will benefit from an ongoing narrative that gives the audience information and a deeper understanding of this great music. Single Show Tickets $15.00 - $46.00