Jon Fromer & Professor Louie: Folk, Blues, Country, and Poetry

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Jon Fromer & Professor Louie: Folk, Blues, Country, and Poetry

Time: October 20, 2012 from 8pm to 10pm
Location: La Peña Cultural Center
Event Type: berkeley, ca
Organized By: La Peña Cultural Center
Latest Activity: Aug 30, 2012

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$13 adv. $15 dr.

Folk, blues, country & poetry at the center of the movement for peace & social change.

Jon Fromer is an award-winning singer/songwriter whose music is a special blend of folk, blues and country that has been at the center of movements for peace and social change in the San Francisco Bay Area for decades.  Jon is known for his rich soulful voice, rhythmic guitar style, and poetic lyrics that capture the human condition. Jon latest CD “Gonna Take Us All” speaks to the power of working together. Pete Seeger's response was “It's a great record! I hope many people start singing your songs.
Professor Louie, the Poet of the Streets, was born bred and buttered in Brooklyn, NY. He has played more rallies, benefits, demonstrations, street fairs,meetings, block parties, and picket lines than he, or anyone else, can remember. According to his mother Rose, "That boy always has something to say". Louie has 4 CD's out on the Free Brooklyn Now label and you have to hurry, there's only a billion left.

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