Stuart Nevitt
March 1953 – March 15, 2008
Stuart Nevitt was the drummer and founding member of Shadowfax. Formed in 1972, Shadowfax was named after Gandalf’s horse in Lord of The Rings and would be the first band signed to the world-renowned Windham Hill Records. A world beat instrumental band from Chicago, they are considered one of the premier groups in the New Age genre and won a Grammy for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village in 1988. The band called it quits after co-founder, Chuck Greenberg died in 1995. Nevitt continued performing and recording until his death on March 15th, 2008 of complications from diabetes and heart disease.
Hello Shadowfax, sorry to hear about the loss of a couple of your members.I too played in an all original band named “SHADOWFAX”. We also formed in 1972 in Las Vegas (We had to change our name after a few years when we saw your first album “Watercourse Way”…great album. We lost one of our founding members this year. I have always enjoyed your music…thanks for bringing it to us. Take care, Michael Avery
My parents held a birthday party for my sister Christine on 1977 ot78 but was jeld in our backyard shadowfax as well as a band called star played that party in las vegas in the backyard on eugene. I remember a song i love the mountains by shadow faxs.before they changed their name.bad ass memories.
Now that i remember the other band may have been cliff syler not sure about the last parts spelling. I do remember that ron zamora played bass with his band that same party..everybody stayed the night in the back yard.