Joe Hill Roadshow
Honoring the labor activist and songwriter on the centenary of his execution
Featuring labor & folk songs performed by:
Magpie (Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner)
Charlie King
George Mann
with special guest John Braxton
University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St.
Saturday, July 25 at 7:30 pm
Hosted by Crossroads Music in collaboration with the American Swedish
Historical Museum and the Industrial Workers of the World Hungarian Literature
Fund
Tickets and more information at http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=4806
The Joe Hill Roadshow is a traveling concert commemorating the centennial of
the execution of the leading songwriter of what Pete Seeger would later call
"the singing-est union America has ever had."
Joe Hill was born in Sweden in 1879 and moved to the US in his early twenties
as a migrant worker. In 1910, he joined the Industrial Workers of the World
(IWW or Wobblies), a radical labor union well known for its use of music and
singing to encourage marchers, strikers, and picketers. His talent at writing
new, political, lyrics to popular songs and hymns was soon made him a prominent
figure in the union: he had written nearly third of the songs in the 1916
edition of its famous "Little Red Songbook." In 1914, Hill was arrested in Salt
Lake City following a murder. Although no evidence connected him with the crime
and and an eyewitness testified that he was not the murderer, he was convicted
and executed November 19, 1915.
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