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Sing Out! 20th Century American Protest Songs

  • January 17, 2025
  • February 07, 2025
  • 4 sessions
  • January 17, 2025, 2:00 PM 3:15 PM (EST)
  • January 24, 2025, 2:00 PM 3:15 PM (EST)
  • January 31, 2025, 2:00 PM 3:15 PM (EST)
  • February 07, 2025, 2:00 PM 3:15 PM (EST)
  • Pavilion

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Course Description: Students will listen to and analyze the music, lyrics, historical context, performers and impact of a diverse selection of American folk and popular songs focusing on a wide range of issues related to social change, economic and racial justice, peace activism and other social movements. We will consider well-known songs and their singers as well as some that are lesser-known but equally powerful. In addition to listening and discussion, class sessions will also include live song performances by course instructors and class singalongs.

 Location:  Pavilion

Dates/Times:   Fridays Jan 17 to Feb 7, from 2 pm - 3:15 pm

Instructors:  Beth Falk & Dan Herman

 Beth Falk and Dan Herman are longtime folk musicians, songwriters and leaders of the Shovel Ready String Band, which performs folk, old time, blues, bluegrass and country music in New York’s Hudson Valley. 

 

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