Past Shows
2011 MUSE BENEFIT CONCERT
“No Nukes” – MUSE “Musicians United for Sustainable Energy” Concert 2011
1979 MUSE BENEFIT CONCERT
"No Nukes" Concerts
September 19-23, 1979
Madison Square Garden, New York
Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, is an activist group founded in 1979 by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, and John Hall. The group advocates against the use of nuclear energy, forming shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in March 1979.
MUSE organized a series of five No Nukes concerts held at Madison Square Garden in New York in September 1979. On September 23, 1979, almost 200000 people attended a large rally staged by MUSE on the then-empty north end of the Battery Park City landfill in New York. The concert was then turned into a live album from Asylum Records called “No Nukes: The Muse Concerts for a Non-Nuclear Future” as well as the Warner Brother’s "No Nukes" Film released in 1980.
Performers:
- Crosby, Stills, and Nash
- Jackson Browne
- James Taylor
- Carly Simon
- John Hall
- Graham Nash
- Bonnie Raitt
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Chaka Khan
- The Doobie Brothers
- Jesse Colin Young
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Tom Petty
- Poco