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Neil Young has canceled his plans for a free concert in Ukraine before his upcoming European summer tour with the Chrome Hearts for security reasons.
Early at the beginning of the month wrote Neil Young on his official website: “We are currently in conversations and will be announced here [im Neil Young Archiv] make. Keep on Rockin ‘in the Free World. “
However, an official date for the show was never set. On Thursday, Neil Young brought the sad news that the concert was completely canceled. “We had a good venue near an emergency shelter. But the changing situation on site was too much”, ” wrote Young on his archive side.
“Ukraine is a great country with a good leader”
“I couldn’t bring my crew and my instruments to this area with a clear conscience. I apologize to everyone. Ukraine is a great country with a good leader. Slava Ukraini.”
Neil Young had never played in Ukraine before. But since Russia’s invasion in 2022, he has been a very loud supporter of the nation. Young is also extremely critical of President Trump.
“Under the leadership of 47, the United States lost its reputation,” said Young at the end of the last month in a contribution entitled ‘Guide of the Free World no longer’. “Loyalists will never be stronger than patriots. And patriots are in the majority here in the United States. Our patriots will take to the streets to demonstrate peacefully. There will be a moment of truth in our country. And we will show the world who we really are. The United States will take the lead of the free world again.”
“Let’s impeach the President”
Neil supported in October Young Kamala Harris as a presidential candidate. “She is an honest, straightforward truth -sager who has experience in the White House. Free of ambiguities or excuses and gets straight to the point,” he wrote. “Kamala Harris is a good person who is clearly in the head and young enough to hold the office for a few further office hours in the future. And who is not afraid to accept it with criminals and maintain the law of the United States. She is my candidate for the future of this great country.”
Neil Young’s political commitment goes back to 1970 when he sharply criticized Richard Nixon in his protest anthem “Ohio”. In the early 1980s he briefly flirted with support for Ronald Reagan, but it has been loyal to the Democratic Party since then. His comeback hit “Rockin ‘in the Free World” from 1989 was directed directly against George HW Bush (“We got a thousand points of light. For the homeless man. We got a children, Gentler, machine-gun hand”). In 2006 he was even harder against Bush’s son George W. Bush during the CSNY tour “Freedom of Speech” during the CSNY tour “Freedom of Speech”.
Young’s tour is the start of a long series of appointments in Europe and North America. “Music connects!”, Young wrote at the announcement of the tour. “We will be with you! Celebrate the summer of democracy with us. Old and new songs. Old and new words. Long Jams! We’ll get together this summer. The Chrome Hearts and I are ready for you! Love and democracy rule in the USA and the world.”