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The Kingston Trio Sues Lawyer, Claiming He Lied About Having ‘Inside Track’ at L.A.’s Greek Theatre


The Kingston Trio filed a lawsuit against a lawyer the band says lied about having Greek Theatre ties when it tried booking shows there last summer.

A modern iteration of Grammy-winning band The Kingston Trio is suing a Los Angeles music attorney for fraud, saying he lied about having an “inside track” to book the folk group at the Greek Theatre last summer. The new Kingston Trio claims it retained music lawyer David A. Helfant back in 2023 to help the group secure concert dates at Los Angeles’ famed Greek Theatre the following summer. The Kingston Trio, established by Bob Shane, Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds in San Francisco in the 1950s, charted 17 folk songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and won two Grammy Awards for its No.

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