Free To Read Dan Berggren
Dan Berggren’s “Free to Read” is a midtempo acoustic folk song with a marching beat. It celebrates the freedom to read and the value of open access to information. In his comforting bass voice, Dan sings the titles of banned books. The chorus: “The books you choose are someone else’s walking shoes. We need to be free to read."
Launched in 1982, banned books week is honoring its 40th Anniversary this Sept. 18-24 with the theme “Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us.” Visit bannedbooksweek.org
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Dean Friedman’s upbeat “Ridin’ With Biden” uses
traffic and car honks as part of the instrumental part adorning his cool jazz delivery
of President Biden’s history, and why Dean-himself-- loves to be Ridin' with
Biden" rhymes like "sleepy joe,” and “more decency in his toe than
you know--Honk!!!” Dean’s playing his
first New York City show in FIVE years on October 8 at Chelsea Stage + Table.
What’s a Place Like This Doing in a Girl Like Me? *Val Kinzler’s “What’s a Place Like This Doing in a Girl Like Me,” a finalist in the Open Space songwriting contest, is a “Rocky Horror”-esque women-in-the-workplace survival anthem.
Save the Monarch John Hall & Dar Williams Male & female duet on this hymn-like singer-songwriter song guitar/bass/drums, environment, Monarch, emperor, queen, king--animals with royal names that are endangered species."Save them from us"
What the Fuck is Going On Elliott Murphy Note: Live Recording Rock
Troubadour Energetic and Angry hook, Pounding electric guitar, hand claps in
time to the music, tempo like "one bourbon, one scotch, one beer":
“What the fuck is going on.” song is about the economy. good for the greed
factor. dream of a better world There's one big ponzi scheme all over the
world. They (politicians) must think we're stupid; well maybe we
are" "Mother Earth" Vocals: Tom Waits Lou Reed, Bruce
Springsteen But Jesus Christ, if he was here today, I think
he’d be mad as hell.”
Game of Chicken Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius Electric violin-driven hard rock. Dream Theater meets Rush meets Styx. "we're heating up as we run out of time." People are deliberately daring one another to play with risk. We're busy bickering while the planet is losing it.
Michael and his fellow songwriters from PBS’s “We
Remember: Songs of Survivors” will share stories about writing songs with Holocaust
survivors at New York City’s Cutting Room on September 18 and Saratoga’s Caffe
Lena on the 22.
