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Saturday, May 05, 2007

SONGS OF PROTEST 2: An Evening with the Songwriters Featured at Neil Young's Living With War Site

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Poster by McNevin Hayes


Following up February's Songs of Protest concert in Los Angeles (see
Rusted Highway for details) comes word of a second concert.

Neil Young is using his reputation as a songwriter/performer and his fascination with new technology as tools to promote protest song writing and performing. His website Living with War Today features downloadable protest songs written and performed by songwriter/performers from all over the world.

Responding to letters to the LWW site urging Young to take the best songwriters on tour , songwriter/recording artist Cindy Lee Berryhill has organized a series of "Songs of Protest shows featuring songwriter/performers whose work can be heard at the Living with War Today website. The first and next of these shows have been and will be at the highly respected Largo nightclub in the Fairfax region of Los Angeles.

The upcoming Songs of Protest show (second in the series) will be on Saturday evening May 12, and will feature songwriter/performers Berryhill and Peter Case and Grant Lee Phillips with an invocation by United Church of Christ minister Rev. Madison Shockley. Plus Brian Wilson collaborator poet Stephen Kalinich. Also, songwriters featured at the LWW site, East Coast singer-songwriter Tommy Fuller, Nancy Hall who toured with Neil Young on his Greendale tour, singer-songwriter Joel Rafael, who works with the Estate of Woody Guthrie on the "Ribbon of Highway-Endless Skyway"tour.

Where: Largo, 432 North Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036, Phone (323) 852-1073.
When : Sat. May 12th
How much: $20.00 w/half of proceeds going to the Bridge School
Time: doors at 8PM

For details, email cindyleeberryhill@hotmail.com
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous5/08/2007 01:08:00 PM

    if anyone's interested, i'm grew up in neil young's home-town and the first song i learned to play on guitar was 'helpless' - now i've got a new site that's in a way devoted to neil young - check it out: www.mygrunge.com - sign up and spread YOUR grunge! peace

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