Tickets go on-sale February 28.
Neil is always supportive and ready to rock.
And then we go from there.
Courtesy of Light Up the Blues
Anybody who wants to come and play with us is welcome.
Booking the show was especially challenging this year because of the Los Angeles wildfires.
It was also hard to organize before artists had their spring tour schedules nailed down.
But over the past few weeks, commitments started to come in.Billy Idolwas one of the first to agree.
We saw Billy and Steve Stevens perform at the Bridge School Benefit many years ago, says Kristen Stills.
It was an amazing performance that brought down the house.
Im an eighties kid, so this is incredibly exciting for me.
Autism Speaks helped him navigate that journey of announcing publicly that he has autism.
And the next natural thing was to ask him to be a part of this show.
As it turned out, he had just formed a bluegrass band where every member is on the spectrum.
All of the great bluegrass groups came to the Village in the early Sixties.
I was like, Wow, that was your relative?
The Stills family got involved with the organization when their son Henry was diagnosed.
And diagnosis occurrences have gone up yet again.
And as the occurrences increase, the need increases.
One of the biggest needs is access to healthcare.
And Autism Speaks helps with that.
So thats an important thing.
And thats just, quite frankly, unacceptable.
What a bunch of gentlemen.
I call them the Promise of the Willing because theyre willing to do whatever you want.
Its so different than the previous generation of musicians who all wanted to replace us.
We want to give people an incredible night of music and entertainment, says Kristen Stills.
And we want people to learn more about autism.
The whole purpose of the event is to create a world more inclusive to people with autism.
We are also celebrating Autism Speaks 20th anniversary.
Twenty years ago, there were hardly any resources available to parents like me and Stephen.
Autism Speaks has profoundly changed that.
