CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline reports:

Neil Young said a couple of weeks ago that he would play a free concert in Ukraine, with a date and venue TBA. But now that show has been called off.

“Our concert in Ukraine is canceled,” Young said in a statement on his archives website. “We had a good venue, close to a shelter, but the changing situation on the ground was too much. I could not in good conscience take my crew and instruments into that area. My apologies to all. Ukraine is a great country with a good leader. Slava Ukraini.”

The news came as a fragile limited ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia was in place. But it was broken a day after Young’s announcement. The countries have been at war since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

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