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Mercedes Sosa dies
Argentinian political musician Mercedes Sosa died today in Buenos Aires. She was 74. more to come
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I have been waiting for Canada’s favorite poet/singer and my own second cousin, Leonard Cohen, to use his recent (and gargantuan) resurgence in fame for the political good. Last night, in front of an audience of 50,000 people in Tel Aviv, his Concert for Reconciliation, Tolerance and Peace served as a symbol of peace: its [...]
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Tags: Concert for Reconciliation, Leonard Cohen, Ramat Gan Stadium, Tel Aviv, Tolerance and Peace
The Tao of Tao
After meeting Tao Rodriguez-Seeger with his grandfather Pete in June, I thought it would be interesting to get inside the head of the offspring of such an influential musician. Below is the introduction to an interview I did with him in July which has since been published by the guys at musicfordemocracy.com. Musician Tao Rodriguez [...]
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Tags: Music, Music for Democracy, pete seeger, Politics, tao rodriguez-seeger
Etan Thomas Basketball Poet
An unusual combination of things, thirty-one year old Etan Thomas is both an NBA basketball star and a peace activist/poet. We are including him on the site because despite not being a musician but he is definitely a part of pop culture. Since 2005 Thomas has spoken twice at anti-war rallies in Washington, supported Obama’s [...]
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Tags: anti-war, Etan Thomas, Obama
I had the pleasure of meeting Pete Seeger at a Strawberry Festival in New York state a few weeks ago while working as researcher and production assistant on a documentary about the late Cuban poet Jose Marti. Marti wrote a lot of the lyrics that ended up in the version of a song Pete Seeger [...]
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Tags: banjo, Beacon NY, Guantanamera, Jose Marti, pete seeger, Strawberry Festival, tao rodriguez-seeger
Canadian political music icon Bruce Cockburn is releasing his first live solo album after a 39 year career that has seen him produce 34 albums of music, travel in Africa, Latin America and Asia with groups such as OXFAM and Amnesty International, and win a huge amount of national and global awards for his music and [...]
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Tags: Amnesty International, blog, bruce cockburn, Canadian, CD, City Is Hungry, folk, guitar, guitarist, If A Tree Falls, If I Had A Rocket Launcher, live, Music, new release, OXFAM, political, Politics, pop, Protest, rounder records, slice o' life, solo, songwriter, true north records, World of Wonders
Tracy Chapman, Our Bright Future
Tracy Chapman’s new album, her first in 3 years, opens with an incredibly catchy song called Sing For You. Lyrically it lacks a bit of substance. Even so I couldn’t help but listen to this song four times before moving on to the next song on the album. Here she is playing it on Jay [...]
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Tags: CD, folk, jay leno, jazz, lyrics, our bright future, political, pop, sing for you, tracy chapman
Other than the Dixie band that accompanies them, the largely volunteer-run Bread and Puppet Theater is not really about the music – but we’re giving them a mention here on the site because of their talent at expressing political ideas through art. In this case the art involves not music, but puppet-making and theater performance. [...]
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Tags: american, bread and puppet, dixie, glover, grassroots, performance art, peter schumann, political, puppets, stilt walker, theater, vermont
New Album From Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow’s new album is a clever tour de force that deals with issues like the environment, gasoline/oil, war, diamonds, peace and love. The opening song, God Bless This Mess, is performed solo and paints Crow initially as an innocent, young, folky singer-songwriter. But don’t be fooled, the album quickly shows it’s true colors as [...]
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Tags: bill bottrell, detours, diamonds, environment, god bless this mess, laurie david, love, peace, peace be with us, rock the vote, sheryl crow, singer, songwriter, tuesday night music club, war
Billy Bragg Survey
On June 18th (2008), we interviewed members of the audience as they came out of a Billy Bragg show at the Club Soda theatre in downtown Montreal. We got 55 respondents within about 15 minutes. In general the people were very open to talking to us about politics and music and we believe that we [...]
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Tags: audience, billy bragg, club soda, interview, montreal, Music, political, Politics, survey
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