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Enjoy Si’s musical play “Mother Jones in Heaven” Live at home Thursday March 26

Mar 25, 2020

Free on YouTube

At 8:30 EDT March 26 go to https://www.youtube.com/user/VivCreates/f

“An inspiration in the fight for workers’ rights and human dignity… timely, educational and necessary.” – Paul F. Cole, American Labor Studies Center

Vivian Nesbitt and John Dillon, the nationally touring cast, take Si’s musical “Mother Jones in Heaven” worldwide on YouTube Thursday night. While they are performing all over North America, this may be your only chance to see them live from your home, which is probably where you will be just as you are now.

At 8:30 pm Eastern Thursday (3-26-2020), just use computer, phone, tablet, smart TV or DVD player, or similar device to go to Vivian’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/VivCreates/f.

The webcast is part of the first night of Show Shepherd’s At Home Theater Series https://www.showshepherd.com/live/. Vivian and John bring the musical play from their living room to yours through the miracle of the Internet. That will make it an even more memorable evening. Check out the www.showshepherd.com to learn more about both Show Shepherd and Si’s plays.

In Honor of Si’s 80th Birthday Today, April 23,

Please Join Us in Launching the Si Kahn Living Legacy

Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer, John McCutcheon

The goal of the Si Kahn Living Legacy is to build awareness of, support for, and public access to the amazingly large body of Si’s creative work that no one except Si has ever seen, and ultimately to keep it alive and easily accessible after he’s gone.  Si has been recognized internationally as one of the most important English language social justice songwriters, connecting his cultural work and social activism like so many before him, including Pete Seeger (with whom he worked, toured, and recorded) and Woody Guthrie.  

Nora Guthrie and others started the Woody Guthrie Archives long after Woody’s passing. As Si turns the corner to his 80th birthday, it’s a perfect time to think ahead, to gather, catalog, and make available those of his songs, stories, book manuscripts, poems, and other creative works that have never before been seen or heard by anyone except Si. The time to do this is now, while he’s healthy, still actively creating, and available as a friendly resource to the Living Legacy’s growth and development. 

It of course takes funding to build and maintain a major project like this. Your contributions are tax-deductible, as the project is managed by and part of the 501(c)3 non-profit Generations: Music for Justice (EIN 87-1647310).

Let’s do this together, recognizing the importance of Si’s life not just as an organizer and musician, but as a humane, generous, deeply kind person, who has spent his entire life trying to make this tired world a kinder, gentler, more just place for all of us.