Channeling the Music of Laurel Canyon

The Suffolk presents “Live From Laurel Canyon: Songs & Stories From American Folk Rock” on Friday, October 4, at 8 p.m.

Laurel Canyon originates from its intersection with Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood and slices its way through the Hollywood Hills. It winds and twists its way high above the city where famed Laurel Canyon residents lived from 1965 through 1976: The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Carole King, James Taylor, the Mamas & the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills & Nash, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Brown, Jim Morrison, Neil Young and the host of other legendary talent.

“Live From Laurel Canyon: Songs & Stories of American Folk Rock” is an evening of live music and narrated stories of some of the most influential songwriters who lived in Laurel Canyon in the mid 1960s and 1970s. Similar to other legendary rock ’n’ roll neighborhoods of the same era like Haight Ashbury in San Francisco or Greenwich Village in New York, Laurel Canyon was a community of artists who would forge a new genre of music (folk rock) and forever change the look, sound and attitude of American pop music.

Live from Laurel Canyon celebrates The Mamas and The Papas, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Doors, Crosby, Stills, Nash, Neil Young, James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, America and The Eagles with its own unique interpretations of some of the most iconic songs of the era.

Much more than a “tribute” act, Live from Laurel Canyon not only performs the music you love in a new and unique way but shares with you the stories that inspired them. “Live from Laurel Canyon” is a journey through a special time in American pop music.

Tickets are $59 to $79 at thesuffolk.org. The Suffolk is at 118 East Main Street in Riverhead.