Victory in Bristol Bay!

Sep 12, 2021

Thursday, September 9, 2021
What they’re talking about is the proposed Pebble Mine, my major organizing work since 2010, when Bristol Bay commercial fisherman Dan Strickland invited me to come to Alaska to write a theme song for the campaign to stop the mine and to protect Bristol Bay permanently. I ended up writing and recording an entire album called Bristol Bay, produced by the great Jens Kruger of the Kruger Brothers. You can hear every one of the songs by clicking here. You can obtain your own copy here.

Please join me in thanking the many, many people and organizations who have been part of this great effort. It may not always be true that “The people united will never be defeated.” But this time unity, creative organizing, passion, commitment and just plain hard work over many years produced a great victory.

May there be many more victories in the years soon to come,

Si
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April 14th will be a very special show.  My dear friend of over 50 years, Si Kahn, turns 80-years-old on April 23rd and I’m throwing a Si Kahn 80th Birthday Party.  Besides being a frequent partner-in-crime, Si and I co-wrote five consecutive Grammy-nominated albums, toured our Signs of the Times tour (with sign language artist, Susan Freundlich). Not incidentally, Si is the godfather of my son Peter.  I was the first person to record a Si Kahn song, even before his incredible debut album New Wood.  So, I’ll reprise that first song, along with lots more of his great music.  But, most wonderfully, there will be over a dozen artists, including Billy Bragg, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Tom Chapin, Jane Sapp, Holly Near, and Kathy Mattea, who’ll be chiming in with tales about Si and singing some of his classic songs.  This will be an incredible evening and a chance to not only hear some great music, but honor the guy I declared, “The best damn songwriter in the South…in his spare time!” back in 1975. 

Even if you’re not able to watch the celebration live, your ticket will allow you to view a recording of the full event for the next two weeks.

100% of ticket sales will go to support the official launch at the concert of the Si Kahn Living Legacy, a new non-profit project that will make available in perpetuity those of Si’s songs, stories, song cycles for children and adults, poems, unpublished books, musicals, and other creative works that have never before been available to the public, and ultimately keep them alive and easily accessible after he’s gone.