TORONTO -- Neil Young will perform four Canadian concerts to fund legal costs for a northern Alberta aboriginal band fighting local oilsands development, Live Nation Entertainment said Monday.
The California-based Canadian music legend has scheduled January gigs in Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina and Calgary, with fellow Canadian Diana Krall also to appear.
Ticket sales for the Honor the Treaties concerts will fund the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation legal defense fund.
The northern Alberta First Nation band is looking to uphold land rights as Shell Canada expands its Jackpine oil sands mine to impact the local environment and wildlife.
Young has been a vocal critic of Alberta's oilsands development, telling a Washington, D.C. gathering September that the Fort McMurray-based drilling was "a wasteland."
His comments came as the Canadian government backs extending the Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S. Gulf coast to send bitumen from Alberta's oilsands to American refineries.
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