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[CANCELLED] Bucky Halker sings Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie & other US labor songs
Wanneer: 29/03/2020 - 19:45
[CANCELLED] Boekhandel Het Fort van Sjakoo presents Sunday 29th of March 2020, 20.00 hrs
Bucky Halker sings Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie & other US labor songs
Bucky Halker is a songwriter, performer, and historian with 15 albums to his credit, including Anywhere But Utah: Songs of Joe Hill (2015) and The Ghost of Woody Guthrie (2012), an original music tribute to the legendary folksinger. Halker, labor historian, has lectured and published extensively on music in America and has toured Europe regularly since 1990. He is the author of 'For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865-1895' and the scholar-producer for the five-volume 'Folksongs of Illinois CD series'. Bucky will perform a variety of working-class protest songs from the US, including the work of Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill, Florence Reece, the Wobblies, and many others, as well as his own compositions.