Neil Young’s ‘Fireside Sessions’ streaming concert series is coming

No Neil Young concert tour? No problem.

The legendary musician is one of several who has seen his planned tour disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Instead, he’s streaming some performances from home on his website, Neil Young Archives, with a little help from his wife, actress Darryl Hannah.

“Because we are all at home and not many are venturing out, we will try to do a stream from my fireplace with my lovely wife filming,” a statement on his site reads. “It will be a down-home production, a few songs, a little time together …”

“We will soon be announcing the first one right here at NYA in the Times-Contrarian and on the Hearse Theater schedule, as well as social media except Facebook,” he added. “As we have previously announced, we are dropping Facebook very, very soon, so if you rely on FB to contact us, prepare for a change.”

The Neil Young Archives is a continuation of a longtime project Young started as a series of archival releases. It has since turned into the website where users can stream nearly all of Young’s recording output in high-resolution audio.

The website features his newspaper, The Times Contrarian, and the Hearse Theater, where users can watch rare video of Young. Initially free, Young launched a subscription service in 2018 for $1.99 a month or $19.99 a year. Anyone can browse the site but only subscribers have full access.

Young, 74, and the band Crazy Horse reunited for the album “Colorado” which dropped in October. The album was recorded in that state in a studio near Telluride that sits at 9,000 feet above sea level.

Young has played with Crazy Horse intermittently since 1969 and they last recorded together in 2012.