Arcade Fire And Neil Young Sing 'Helpless' At Bridge School Benefit (VIDEO)

Arcade Fire and Neil Young joined forces for a cover of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "Helpless" at the Bridge School Benefit, an annual concert organized by Young and his wife, Pegi. In the most logical collaboration ever, the Canadian group and Canadian singer gave a faithful rendition of the Canadian-themed song Saturday night. We're guessing Young had everything to do with these stars aligning, given his shout out to the band earlier this year.

Now sing it with us, "there's a town in north Ontario...":

(via Stereogum)

Comments

[pjordan]

10:17 PM on 10/24/2011

neil young is probably the most diverse and talented artist in rock music history. He has done it all, country, folk, hard rock, electronic, blues. Like a hurricane is the best song ever written and Crazy Horse should be in the Rock and Roll Fame!!!

[Porfirio Wise]

01:11 PM on 10/24/2011

hell yeah

[CSKAP]

10:05 AM on 10/24/2011

Absolutely timeless music. I’ve seen Neil several times from the 60’s on and he’s always been a sublime artist.

[Sue Hamlin]

07:53 AM on 10/24/2011

Gorgeous. Honestly hit me right in the heart. ..no joke

[coveark]

12:41 AM on 10/24/2011

I love this......

[see-ellen2001]

09:56 PM on 10/23/2011

Give a listen to kd lang's cover of the song....beautiful.

[doglove]

08:14 PM on 10/23/2011

Can never get enough of this song!

[bassaiguy]

06:43 PM on 10/23/2011

Great find!

[Barb Bissonnette]

06:36 PM on 10/23/2011

Woohoo!

[kinogod]

04:08 PM on 10/23/2011

Eerie.

[HippieSlug]

03:13 PM on 10/23/2011

it's not really a cover, it was written by Neil Young

[GoogleyEyed]

09:42 PM on 10/24/2011

True. HuffPost is not known for its journalistic accuracy.

[Singing Sparrow]

02:38 PM on 10/23/2011

Oh My!! Stumbled across this while straightening the house for visit from school friend. Left me teary eyed and full of fire-thank you Neil and Arcade Band and Huffington Post. Onward into old-age my school friend and I will skip this afternoon and I won't mind one bit of the journey because of these wonderful troubadours.

[demilieu]

01:54 PM on 10/23/2011

Neil's 'da man!

[thehiker]

12:45 PM on 10/23/2011

Excellent!!!