There is video of the performances at the link.
Joel
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> What an incredible lineup we have for the Phil Ochs 75th birthday
> celebration this Saturday night at the Brooklyn Commons! 388 Atlantic
> Avenue between Hoyt at Bond St. It's going to be great.
>
> It also will be livestreamed. The event begins at 7 pm Saturday! Click <
> http://www.thecommonsbrooklyn.org/node/768>HERE.
>
> Please help spread the word, and come early -- doors open at 6:15pm -- as
> I think it will be pretty crowded (but then again the weather is supposed
> to be pretty raw, so who knows?) The last Phil Ochs night I co-organized
> with Cathryn Swan 10 years ago(!) began at midnight on Bob Fass's LIVE show
> on WBAI and went til 3:30 a.m. during a blizzard and the transit strike,
> and it was packed all the way through!) This one begins at 7 pm until 10 pm.
>
> Below is the list as of today (and I expect that there will be walk-ons,
> too -- please let me know NOW which song you'll want to do!).
>
> *** O yea, one more thing: TONIGHT (Thursday) starting at 7:30 pm in
> Queens, Joel Landy is hosting a Phil Ochs night too! The event will be
> recorded for cablecasting on Songs of Freedom Television, AND it will be
> seen online on Concert Window. It's at Odradeks Coffee House in Kew
> Gardens, Queens (7:30pm to 10pm), 82-60 Austin St., Queens 11415. (718)
> 374-3131. [E or F train to Union Turnpike (first eastbound car; last
> westbound car). Walk up Queens Blvd. or Kew Gardens Rd. to 82nd Road. Turn
> Right and walk towards the LIRR station. Oradeks Cafe is alongside the
> Manhattan bound side of the tracks of the Kew Gardens station. The location
> right near where Kitty Genovese was murdered in '64, about which Phil wrote
> "Small Circle of Friends." (Thank you Joel for that bit of history!)]
> Here is the <
> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206753304405167&set=gm.1681212782109417&type=3&theater>link
> for tonight.
>
> Shout out to Tania at The Commons for the great voicing of the promo
> that's been running for 2 weeks on WBAI, and to Alexi for much of the
> behind-the-scenes and social media work!
>
> Everyone can come, money or no. No one will be turned away for lack of
> funds. We are, however, asking for a donation of between $5 and $500 (all
> right, we won't turn down your $1,000 contribution ... ) to help sustain
> the Brooklyn Commons as a movement space, the wonderful venue of this Phil
> Ochs birthday celebration. So come, enjoy, participate, pay what you can!
>
> Here's a Facebook page to forward to your virtual "friends":
> https://www.facebook.com/events/1505106179820159/
> (or so I'm told. I don't do FaceBook, Inc. (FBI), which I view as a
> surveillance mechanism.)
>
> See list of performers, below!
>
> Mitchel Cohen
>
>
> SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19TH
> Performers (in alphabetical order, not performing order!)
>
> JAY BERG, The Ballad of Lou Marsh
>
> RAS MOSHE BURNETT, Love Me I'm a Liberal
>
> MITCHEL COHEN, When I'm Gone (finale, with everyone?)
>
> RANDY CREDICO, Satire in the Spirit of Phil Ochs
>
> JASON FARBMAN, Haymarket Books -- Joe Hill Book (talk)
>
> MARCY GORDON, Draft Dodger Rag
>
> DON GROSSINGER, talking - co-hosting
>
> JOE JACOVINO, I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night (Billy Bragg)
>
> JOEL LANDY, Too Many Martyrs
>
> SHARLEEN LEAHY, Power and Glory
>
> DAVE LIPPMAN, I Ain't a-Mergin Anymore
>
> DEZAIHR OWENS, I ain't marchin' anymore
>
> BERNARDO PALOMBO, Ya no marcho mas
>
> BENJAMIN PARISH, I'll be There
>
> PINETREE, Changes
>
> ALAN PODBER, Celia, & The Confession
>
> ANNE PRICE, There But for Fortune
>
> RHIO,
>
> HANNAH REIMAN, No More Songs
>
> ELIZABETH RUF MALDONADO,
>
> BEN SILVER, One More Parade
>
> DAVID TARLO & THE HUDSON VALLEY SALLEY BAND, Is There Anybody Here? & The
> Ballad of William Worthy
>
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