Crosby, Stills & Nash by Hatchetman

CSNY Experience presents: A Tribute to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young by Hatchetman

Tickets R250

Sat 18h30 for 19h00 (kitchen orders close at 19h00)

Live Music Starts when Dinner Service is completed

Dinner, Dessert and Drinks available

Fully Licensed, BYOB not permitted

Card / Cash Payment

15% Service Fee Charged

More on the Show

Our House. Helplessly Hoping. Teach Your Children. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes. Ohio. Southern Cross.

For the past 18 months, CSNY Experience has quietly built a loyal following in Cape Town, selling out rooms and drawing audiences who grew up with the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

This Unplugged performance at Alma Café returns to the heart of what made that music timeless. Three voices. Acoustic instruments. Songs built on harmony rather than spectacle.

The magic of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was never just in the writing. It was in the way three distinct voices could weave into something larger than any one of them. That architecture of three-part harmony, tension and release, light and shadow, is what we honour. In this intimate room, every line of Helplessly Hoping, every rise in Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, every swell of Teach Your Children lands with clarity and emotional weight.

More on the Band

Matt Catto

Matt Catto is the rhythmic and harmonic engine of the trio. A seasoned percussionist and drummer, he brings subtle, intelligent texture to an acoustic setting, shaping dynamics with sensitivity rather than volume.

At the centre of his contribution is his voice. Matt is a master harmoniser with an incredibly rich, resonant tone that anchors the trio blend. Three-part harmony only works when each singer knows when to lead, when to yield and when to lock in. Matt’s instinct for that balance runs deep. Raised in a family steeped in folk harmony, his musical inheritance traces back to the Blundell family lineage, where accompanying vocals were not decoration but foundation.

That lineage reaches back to their grandfather Keith Blundell in the 1960s and 70s, when folk harmony was not revival but lived culture. It is this inherited understanding of blend that allows the CSNY material to feel natural rather than recreated.

Nick Catto

Nick Catto is a bassist and harmony vocalist known for his musicality and versatility on both the biggest stages and the most intimate rooms . Since picking up the bass in his teens, he has been shaped by a family culture where harmony was central, not optional.

His career has included projects such as Hatchetman, Native Young, Rumours: The Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show, The Misty Cliffs and Jeremy Loops. He has toured extensively across South Africa, Europe, the UK, as well as Australia, refining not only his musicianship but his understanding of how harmony carries an audience across language and geography.

Within CSNY Experience, Nick provides the bass foundation and vocal architecture that stabilises the trio. His high harmony lines mirror the role once held by Nash, lifting the brighter upper parts and allowing the three voices to move as one.

Jono Tait

Jono Tait is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, and the driving force behind one of Cape Town’s leading live music venues, The Alma Café . His musical journey began early, studying classical and jazz music and singing in choirs before picking up guitar at 14 .

Jono comes from a deeply musical family, with a personal history steeped in the songs of CSN and Neil Young through his father’s influence and lifelong listening. That connection is not academic. It is lived. The phrasing, the emotional directness, the willingness to let a lyric stand bare. These qualities shape the way he approaches songs like Helpless and Ohio.

Across projects including Hatchetman, We Kill Cowboys and others, Jono has developed a voice that carries both grit and vulnerability. In CSNY Experience, he often holds the melodic centre, allowing the harmonies above and below to create that unmistakable three-part lift that defines the Crosby, Stills and Nash sound.

Hatchetman and the Shared History

Before this tribute had a name, these three musicians were forging their blend as founding members of Hatchetman. Years of rehearsal rooms, festival stages and touring built more than a band. They built a shared musical instinct.

Hatchetman earned critical recognition, including three Silver Ovations at the National Arts Festival , but more importantly it forged the discipline of tight vocal layering and collective listening.

Three-part harmony is not about three good singers. It is about three people who trust each other enough to create a single voice. That trust was formed long before CSNY Experience.

Add to that the Catto and Blundell family heritage, the folk harmonies of their grandfather Keith, and Jono’s lifelong connection to the Young catalogue, and what you have is not a constructed tribute. You have musicians whose roots are intertwined with this music.

What Audiences Are Saying

Peter

“One of the best live shows I have seen there. Excellent harmonies… A thoroughly enjoyable experience for us seventy year olds who grew up with their Deja Vu music.”

Richard

“To present the enduring songs of one of the most iconic harmonising trios in music history… and pull it off so impeccably is truly inspiring. What a joyful evening reliving the songs that defined our youth.”

Wendy

“If we closed our eyes we could have been listening to the originals. Well deserving of the standing ovation.”

Three voices.

Songs that changed the world.

Come and be part of the harmony.