The Ash Grove: SING OUT THE NEWS! A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE BROADSIDE BALLAD

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SING OUT THE NEWS!
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE BROADSIDE BALLAD

SING OUT THE NEWS!
A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE BROADSIDE BALLAD


Ash Grove Music presents ...

SING OUT THE NEWS!

A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE BROADSIDE BALLAD

The Ash Grove Foundation presents modern broadside balladeers Ross Altman and Len Chandler in, "Sing Out the News: A Social History of Broadside Ballads" at the Silver Lake Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library on Saturday, February 22^nd from 2:30 to 4:30 PM; 2411 Glendale Blvd, LA 90039; (323) 913-7451. Free and open to the public.

In the days before radio and television, news was broadcast by word of mouth. Often the word became lyrics, and the voice became song. In Britain, Ireland and North America these songs were called Broadside Ballads. The centuries-long tradition of the broadside ballad may be swamped by the current mass media bombardment of infotainment and talking heads. But in this brief encounter at the public library the audience will learn the history and hear the musical tradition that is still an integral part of the peoples' response to the news and events of the day.

Ross Altman traded his professorship in English Literature for a life as a political folksinger and music historian of left movements. If there's been a cause that needed a song, Ross has been on the spot with lyric and tune. Writing in traditions ranging from Woody Guthrie to Tom Paxton, this "singer-songfighter's" songs always have something to say.

Len Chandler is a singing hero of the Civil Rights and Anti-War movements. He sang with Joan Baez and Bob Dylan at the historic March on Washington, fifty years ago, in 1963. His song, "Green, Green Rocky Road", can be heard today in the film, "Inside Llewyn Davis."

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Harriet Udin Aronow
2812 Angus Street
Los Angeles, CA 90039
323 839 5439 (cell)

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