Neil Young, John Mayer and Stephen Stills of Crosby, Stills and Nash are scheduled to play a daytime benefit concert from 11 a.m. to about 6 p.
m. on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Painted Turtle Camp in Lake Hughes.
The event, dubbed “Harvest Moon,” is a fundraiser for the Painted Turtle, a year-round camp for children with serious medical conditions, and the Bridge School in Hillsborough, California, which offers educational services to children with severe speech and physical disabilities, according to Jessica Santos, events manager for the Painted Turtle. “The concert is on our campsite in Lake Hughes,” Santos said during a telephone interview, “and it’s a magical day because it’s a daytime concert, which makes it really fun, and very much a festival kind of atmosphere. We’re going to have food trucks there, face painting in a kids’ zone, it’s on this giant lawn, and the backdrop is the .
.. Angeles National Forest mountains, which is beautiful.
” Santos said this is the second event of its kind at Painted Turtle, the first one taking place in September 2019, which featured the musical talents of Young, Nora Jones and Father John Misty. Organizers had hoped to do these shows every year after, but the COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on that. This year’s event, which is put on by Goldenvoice, the music concert company behind Coachella and Stagecoach, is the first one since then.
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