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Radio review: the Liveline host’s snap judgment on Simon Harris’s State apology somehow captures the wider mood

We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art?

 

The Clash are the touchstone for a story that stretches back to the 50s, told in interviews with many campaigning rockers

On Pastures of Plenty this week (April 24, 2024) we honor the music of the late Pete Seeger, who would have been so tickled to hear the news of the successful union vote at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Seeger's birthday is on May 3, and the union vote by 73 % of the 3500 workers to join the UAW marks the first successful union vote in the South since the

I suppose if I had been cheering on a vast medical experiment on children that was now shown to be extremely harmful, I might be keeping my head down. If I had been interning as a witch hunter, I might say, “I only helped with the pyres, I didn’t actually light the fire.” If I needed other people’s small children to prove my very “existence” as an adult, I may keep rather quiet.

 

 

The next stop is the Pageant Theatre in Chico on Thursday, April 25. The event is sponsored by KZFR “The Mighty Zephyr” 90.1 and the Pageant. The Drews will be there to introduce the film and answer audience questions afterward. Local acoustic roots musicians, the October Coalition Family Band, will play a live pre-show set starting at 6:30 p.m. The film starts at 7 p.m.