From Antimusic.com:

David Crosby has revealed that Buffalo Springfield will embark on a reunion tour later this year. Crosby told Rolling Stone magazine that the ’60s folk-rockers, which include Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay, will perform some dates in the Fall. It will be the band’s first tour since 1968.

The three surviving Buffalo Springfield members reunited last fall for performances at Young’s Bridge School Benefit. Crosby said his Crosby, Stills and Nash bandmate is definitely up for doing more.

“I think he is excited,” Crosby says of Stills. “And I’ve got to tell you, I didn’t get to see them live, but I watched clips and Richie [Furay] – I got to tell you, man, he is so happy onstage and is such a joyful energy.”

According to Crosby it was Furay who made the reunion happen.

“He really sparked that thing, and I think it was a very pleasant experience for Neil and Stephen both,” Crosby said. “I know they’re going to go out for at least some dates in the fall. Personally, I’d like to go watch. They’re one of my favorite bands.”

Furay’s manager confirmed that the group is making plans to tour. Crosby said he wishes the tour could be even more special and include a Byrds reunion, too.

“I wish I could throw it in with the Byrds,” he said, referring to his pre-CSN band. “That would be my dream, because everybody and their uncle would come to see the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield. But that’s not going to happen. Roger [McGuinn] is pretty adamant about that. He’s very happy about being a folksinger; he likes it, and wants it that way.”

I'd like to see them play NY, depending on the venue.

Because Neil Young is involved, I'm sure it will be arenas like Madison Square Garden. I'll go see this.

This is great, however Stills voice on the boot CD I have of the reunion show was terrible, hope he can hang in there.

I can see a B.S CD/DVD/Blur ray etc in the works

If they hit Seattle this might have to be my 1st show of 2011, even though I agree with ranasakawa that Stills voice is gone.

I heard an audie of Bridge School & it was really good.

You want to see them play Neil Young??

I imagine that they'll do "Burned", "Mr. Soul", et.al., but not so much his solo stuff

You're strange, but don't change.

my freshman roomie gets to find this out on his birthday!

Buffalo Springfield have announced a series of reunion dates in addition to their previously announced performance at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival.
the line-up featuring Neil Young, Stephen Stills, and Richie Furay, along with Rick Rosas—filling in for the late Bruce Palmer—and Crosby, Stills & Nash drummer Joe Vitale sitting in for the late Dewey Martin, will team up for a series of six California dates with plans for additional dates to be announced soon.

The itinerary kicks off with two dates at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA on June 1 and 2. Also on the schedule are pairs of concerts at Los Angeles' Wiltern Theater (June 4-5), and the Santa Barbara Bowl (June 7-8)—all of the California dates feature Gillian Welch as opener.

On Saturday June 11, Buffalo Springfield plays the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, TN, joining other headliners including Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Eminem, and the Black Keys.

Buffalo Springfield Reunion Tour Dates:
June 1 Fox Theater Oakland, CA
June 2 Fox Theater Oakland, CA
June 4 Wiltern Theater Los Angeles, CA
June 5 Wiltern Theater Los Angeles, CA
June 7 Santa Barbara Bowl Santa Barbara, CA
June 8 Santa Barbara Bowl Santa Barbara, CA
June 11 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival Manchester, TN

This can be merged with the other thread on BS of course!

Seattle, please???????!

CLEVELAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Iconic Buffalo Springfield stampedes into Bonnaroo

By CHRIS TALBOTT, AP Entertainment Writer
1 hr 31 mins ago

MANCHESTER, Tenn. – Richie Furay knows a little something about miracles in his new career as a preacher.

A Buffalo Springfield reunion may not strictly qualify as a one. But like most folks he'd written off the possibility when the band famously flamed out in 1968, ending a short but incandescent run that would ripple through music for decades to come.

"People have asked me did I think The Buffalo Springfield would ever get back together again, and my answer was a short, `Never, it's not gonna happen,'" Furay said in a phone interview last Saturday before the band's soundcheck in Los Angeles. "That old saying, `Never say never,' is true."

The surviving members of the California quintet — Furay, Stephen Stills and Neil Young — will make their only festival appearance this year on Saturday at Bonnaroo, serving as a focal point for an event heavy on bands influenced by the folk- and country-rock pioneers.

Young first broached the idea of a reunion in a song, "Buffalo Springfield Again" from 2000's "Silver & Gold," and finally reached out personally last year to invite Furay and Stills to join him at his annual Bridge School benefit concert in October.

Fans cheered the reunion and, more importantly, the band enjoyed it. Over the years their relationships sometimes bore the lingering strain of that 1960s breakup. But not this time. Things were so much fun, they made plans for a six-date mini-tour in California to warm up for Bonnaroo and have since announced a fall tour.

There's a harmony these days that didn't exist during the band's revolving-door run from 1966-68.

"Nobody's looking for a career move or anything," Furay said. "This isn't a career move. This is just a bunch of guys who played music together 40 years ago having fun, readdressing the music that we played, and there's no agendas. ... Man, it's so much more relaxed and I am going to speak for Neil and for Stephen, we're just having fun. There's no reason to be doing this if everyone isn't having fun and everyone's having fun. We knew that back at the Bridge School. It was like stepping back in time."

And it's an exciting time to revisit. Buffalo Springfield held together just long enough to record one album together, one album apart and enough leftovers for a third.

In these few dozen tracks is a large portion of the DNA for today's thriving folk- and country-rock scenes. Buffalo Springfield alongside groups like The Byrds helped meld sounds no one really thought belonged together at the time. Folk purists felt rock `n' roll was abusive, and rock purists didn't want to fluff up their music. And the country guys had no idea what to make of it all.

Buffalo Springfield — which originally included bassist Bruce Palmer and drummer Dewey Martin, who have both passed away — had just one big hit in its short run, but its commercial success was inverse to its influence. Tension in the band between Young and Stills and legal problems for Palmer led to the band's split. Young and Stills went on to success as solo artists and together in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young. Furay formed the influential country-rock band Poco with latter-day Springfield member Jim Messina before forming the nondenominational Calvary Chapel in Bloomfield, Colo.

The band entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997. Songs like the band's biggest hit "For What It's Worth," "Bluebird," "Mr. Soul" and the iconic "Broken Arrow," performed live for the first time during the reunion, with their topical themes and open-hearted intent, still resonate with listeners today — perhaps as much as ever. The band lived during a politically tumultuous time and reappears in a time that feels just as stormy.
"Just the faces have changed," said Furay, who now lives in Colorado.

The ideas and influences of Buffalo Springfield can be felt every year at Bonnaroo, an all-genre event that nevertheless has a soft spot for roots rock.
You could easily call bands like Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, The Decemberists, Ray LaMontagne, Old Crow Medicine Show and many others in the festival's four-day lineup distant descendants of Buffalo Springfield.

Organizers of Bonnaroo, which kicks off Thursday, think it was a coup to land the reunited act's only festival date. It also was another chance to look forward by looking back.

"I think Bonnaroo has always been about presenting not only sort of what is current and breaking but also artists that have influenced a lot of the music that our audience is listening to," Bonnaroo co-creator Rick Farman of Superfly Productions said. "And there's always been a thing within sort of the rock world of looking back at the sort of predecessors, the ones who created the pathways for the new artists and sort of putting them up on a pedestal to be experienced in that way.

Saturday night's performance will be Young's first return to Manchester since a scorching 2003 solo show that Farman and his friends place among the top five performances in the 10-year history of the festival.
"That was a transcendent moment for the festival for I think a lot of us who produce it personally and I think for the audience," Farman said. "So, you know, having him back and having him in this configuration is really exciting."

Furay says it's an exciting prospect for the band as well and perhaps just one in a long line of steps these old friends will take together. No one has committed to anything beyond the fall tour, but there are songs being written.

"We haven't discussed, you know, `Hey, we're going to sit down and we're going to write 10 new songs,'" Furay said. "Neil's so prolific anyway. Stephen told me the other day he had a song. I've been writing music. So I just think it's obvious that something may transpire like that, it may come to pass."

When the newly reunited Buffalo Springfield takes the stage at Bonnaroo this weekend, it won’t be the last fans see of the Neil Young-originated group. According to singer and guitarist Richie Furay, the 1960s folk-rockers are on tap to do a full-scale tour kicking off in September.

“The plan is to do 30 dates this fall,” Furay told Rolling Stone. “The anchors will be Los Angeles and New York. What the other cities are, I can't tell you right now – but we're almost certainly doing Red Rocks.”

This time around, the guys will perform at theaters instead of jumbo amphitheaters and arenas.

“We want to keep it a little more intimate,” Furay said. “. . . There have been people from Florida, Chicago and Texas saying to me, 'Hey, you gonna come my way?' I have to say that with 30 shows, we're gonna hit those cities.”

Furay, a born again Christian, said he was in is home office, knocking out some church business when he got the call from Neil Young about ending Buffalo Springfield’s 43-year hiatus.

He was shocked: “This thing was not on my radar,” he said. “I got one of those calls that Neil was calling me, so I got on the phone and we just started the conversation. He said that he'd been talking to Stephen [Stills] and they thought it would be really fun to do the Bridge School Benefit. . .”

Of course, he was eager to do it.

“It’s kind of funny, ‘cause Neil said, ‘Well, you know, we don't have to do it this year if this is too soon. . .’” Furay said. “And I'm thinking, ‘Neil, I mean we're not 20 years old again. We better do this while we still can!’”

Further plans may include a live album or DVD, compiling Buffalo Springfield’s performance at Bonnaroo and the preceding 7-day tour: “. . . There's been no direct conversation that I've had, but I know the shows are being recorded. Each one.”

I hope NY allows release of the live cd.

Any news on how the mini tour has been going? Neil actually shows up?

They look happy!

I'm curious-how do Buffalo Springfield fans look at this? I'm only a casual fan, but is this really a reunion? It's Young and Stills who play together anyway with Furay and whoever they've brought in. If people bash certain acts for carrying on, with 2 deceased members obviously not a part of this, does this feel like an actual full-fledged reunion? Couldn't people say this is in name only? Seems to me this should've happened years ago when the others were alive. It feels a bit empty. But the voices are all there which is of course, very important.
Now, me personally-I'm glad this is happening, but I just want to know if fans consider this a real reunion or the 3 guys just playing those songs a final time.

The missing members are the bass player & drummer who did not write or sing & contributed little to the signature sound so I'm ok.

i truly believe jimmy messina should have been included.

as for palmer and martin, they were not nearly as integral as the other four.

messina even got a song on "last time around".

I actually was thinking that also. I didn't state that because my memory is so f'd up these days, if I had posted something about Messina, it would have turned out he was never in the band! Wonder why he was left out?

At first I thought, Messina in Buffalo? As I recall he and Furay starting Poco together (really fine band).

So I looked it up and sure enough:

While with Buffalo Springfield, he served as a recording engineer, producer, and eventually as a bass player (he replaced Bruce Palmer) on their last album.

So there you go, it would be nice if he can join them on stage somewhere during the tour.

Kind of like when Ian McDonald (King Crimson) joined Keith Emerson and Greg Lake on their mini-tour.

Rick A.