Rock legend Neil Young surprised a protest crowd in Canada over the weekend with his first in-person performance since 2019.

Young and his wife, actor Daryl Hannah, appeared unannounced at an event protesting the logging of old-growth trees in British Columbia, Canada.

“It’s a precious, sacred thing, these old trees because they show us the power of nature when we are being threatened,” said Young, a longtime activist for environmental causes. “They show us the past, and they show us our future.”

Young performed two songs: “Heart of Gold” and “Comes A Time.”

“We plan to be back in 2020!” he wrote on his website.

Young did a handful of online shows during the pandemic. But when many of his contemporaries began returning to the road in 2021, Young held back ― and at one point slammed in-person concerts as “super-spreader events”

“The big promoters, if they had the awareness, could stop these shows,” he wrote at the time.

He took a similar view as recently as last summer.