Teach Your Children - Still Relevant Today

Teach Your Children - Still Relevant Today

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 1970 (Photo by Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

A new music video has just been released for CSNY's "Teach Your Children" from the Deja Vu album released in 1970.

The video is a collaboration between Graham Nash and celebrated filmmaker and animator Jeff Scher, who literally drew thousands of frames and then animated the drawings. 

The imagery frames the youth-led liberal activism of 2018 against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and Peace demonstrations of the 1960s, providing a powerful visual aid to Graham Nash's relevant-as-ever appeal to teach not only our children but also our parents well.

“I wrote Teach Your Children because we have much to teach them. Conversely, I believe we as parents have much to learn from them as well. I think that Jeff Scher did a wonderful job of animating my lyrics and positioning the song in a contemporary setting." - Graham Nash (2018)

A remastered version of the song has recently been released digitally on Graham Nash's Over The Years...

 

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