[GPRI] Great Evening of Protest Songs/ Phil Ochs Tribute at Stone Soup Saturday 3/31

[Richard Walton]

Hi, RI Greens;  I don't have to tell you how long and exhausting the
struggle is and every now and then it's good to experience something that
rouses the spirits and reenergizes us ... and I can't imagine anything
more rousing, more energizing than the great 60's songs of Phil Oches.  In
what I believe will be one of the great nights in all Stone Soup's year,
we're putting on a Phil Ochs Tribute with his sister Sonny and such
dynamite protest singers as Kim & Reggie Harris, Magpie, David Roth, Greg
Greenway and others.  After a night like that we'll be reading once again
to shout "To the Barricades."  Perhaps stopping for a while at the East
Ave. Café on the way.
    What follows is a note I've sent to the local media.  Don't miss this
one! It's going to be an absolutely wonderful night of progressive song. 
Peace.  Richard.


Hi, :  This is a personal note about what I think is going to be one of
the great nights in Stone Soup's 26 years, the Phil Ochs Tribute concert
on Saturday, March 31.  Taking us back to our roots in the Josh
White/Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger tradition, Stone Soup will be presenting
some of the finest protest singers of our time doing the works of Phil
Ochs who wrote such 60's classics as "I Ain't Marching Anymore," "When I'm
Gone," "Draft Dodger Rag," "Love Me I'm a Liberal," 'There But for
Fortune" and so many songs that helped make the 60's "the legendary 60's."
    Organized by Phil Ochs' sister Sonny who'll be host, the audience will
be roused  by such wonderful performers as Kim & Reggie Harris, Magpie,
David Roth, Greg Greenway and others.  They will bring the fervor of the
anti-war movement of the 60's to a time when anti-war sentiment is broad
but with much less of the passion that marked the 60's.
    To many Phil Ochs, who took his life in 1976, personified the 60's
even more than his great admirer Bob Dylan.  For those who remember the
60's and for those who wish they had been there, this is simply a night
not to be missed! Over the years I've been to an awful lot of fine
concerts at Stone Soup but I don't think I've ever more looked forward to
one.  As I say, I think this is going to be one of Stone Soup's greatest
nights!  Thanks.  Peace.  Richard.
    P.S.  And the tickets are only fifteen bucks!
    

	"The only way out of our crisis (terrorism) is to reduce the anger of the
most rational, thus also reducing the constituency of the least rational."
 Sam Smith.

	"When they come for the innocent without crossing over
your body, cursed be your religion and your life."  Anon.  But often
quoted by Dorothy Day.
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"Richard Walton" <richard at soup.org>
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