With John Wesley Harding, Marshall Crenshaw, Martha Redbone, Richard Barone, David Poe, Lea DeLaria and many more
SPECIAL GUESTS: John Kerry's bandmates from The Electras!
Monday, October 25, at 8:00 PM
The Knitting Factory (74 Leonard Street)
New York, NY - Concerts for Change, a national organization holding benefit events across the country to support John Kerry and Democrats, presents an evening of songs by Bruce Springsteen, performed by today's top singer-songwriters, vocalists, and jazz musicians. Why Springsteen? The Boss's “No Retreat, No Surrender" is the Kerry campaign theme song; Springsteen showed his devotion to political Change by participating in America Coming Together's concert tour; and the title of his latest album, The Rising, is what Kerry will be doing in the polls in the coming days!
Concerts for Change is excited to announce two very special guests: John Kerry's bandmates in his high school garage-rock band, The Electras - Guitarists Larry Rand and Jon Prouty. They are two of the originally 4-man band founded in 1960, when bassist John Kerry was just 16. (Kerry has said that he joined the band in order to “meet girls.") The Concerts for Change website, http://www.ConcertsforChange.org, has a link to hear clips from their 1961 album and see photos of the high-school heartthrob Kerry.
The rest of the performers might not have jammed with our next president, but they are all supreme talents: John Wesley Harding (who has been called the “greatest singer-songwriter" of today), Marshall Crenshaw, Martha Redbone (whom the Village Voice compared to Roberta Flack and proclaimed “America's next superstar"), pianist Vijay Iyer (whose “bracingly expressionist jazz" has been praised by The New York Times), guitar legend Gary Lucas, “prince of New York" Richard Barone, David Poe (who organized a Concert for Kerry back in July), Lea DeLaria (described as “Ethel Merman with attitude" by The New York Times), Hiram Bullock, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars, and singer Kate McGarry.
Doors open at 7:30 pm, on Monday, October 25, at the Knitting Factory. Tickets are $15 in advance at www.ConcertsforChange.org and $20 at the door.
These musicians join a concert series that has featured a number of top singer-songwriters, including Suzanne Vega, Garland Jeffreys, Grant-Lee Phillips, Victoria Williams and Mark Olson, John Legend, and Duncan Sheik, and jazz musicians such as Joshua Redman, Ron Carter, Christian McBride, Brad Mehldau, and Jim Hall.
Concerts for Change (http://www.ConcertsforChange.org) is a campaign of Running for Change, a political action committee that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the DNC, swing-state Democratic committees, advertising, and other efforts that will help elect John Kerry in November. Run Against Bush (www.RunAgainstBush.org) is a partner in the Running for Change PAC. C4C is the successor to Concerts for Kerry, an independent grassroots group that raised $207,000 for the Kerry campaign between April and July 29. C4C also recently started StopSinclair.org, a campaign against Sinclair Broadcast Group, which includes an online petition with more than 150,000 signatures.
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