Sat February 25, 2023
Rockin' Solidarity Chorus & Freedom Songs Revival in Concert
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Coming together in song is a primal act of solidarity. For those who work and organize workers, songs are powerful units of cultural transmission and tools for building labor movements. Whether from the folkways or on the picket lines, labor songs not only are integral parts of the working class culture that sustained robust union activity in the 19th & 20th centuries but also tell the history of that culture and usher it into the present.
Tenderloin Museum welcomes the Rockin' Solidarity Chorus and Freedom Songs Revival for a joint concert in celebration of Education for Action: California Labor School 1942-1957, TLM's collaborative special exhibit with the Labor Archives at SFSU. Both of these labor choruses have deep roots in the Bay Area's contemporary community of labor activists (as well as abundant overlap between their members & activities), and are uniquely suited to perform in an homage, continuation, and extension of the choral and labor song traditions practiced by CLS. The Tenderloin's radical union-founded worker's school sported a "People's Songs" branch, a Jewish chorus, and many other groups and performances through which music intersected with labor culture.
Join us for a Saturday afternoon concert in celebration of the legacy of the California Labor School and in tribute to Black History Month. Free. 3pm - 4:30pm.
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Tenderloin Museum welcomes the Rockin' Solidarity Chorus and Freedom Songs Revival for a joint concert in celebration of Education for Action: California Labor School 1942-1957, TLM's collaborative special exhibit with the Labor Archives at SFSU. Both of these labor choruses have deep roots in the Bay Area's contemporary community of labor activists (as well as abundant overlap between their members & activities), and are uniquely suited to perform in an homage, continuation, and extension of the choral and labor song traditions practiced by CLS. The Tenderloin's radical union-founded worker's school sported a "People's Songs" branch, a Jewish chorus, and many other groups and performances through which music intersected with labor culture.
Join us for a Saturday afternoon concert in celebration of the legacy of the California Labor School and in tribute to Black History Month. Free. 3pm - 4:30pm.
Coming together in song is a primal act of solidarity. For those who work and organize workers, songs are powerful units of cultural transmission and tools for building labor movements. Whether from the folkways or on the picket lines, labor songs not only are integral parts of the working class culture that sustained robust union activity in the 19th & 20th centuries but also tell the history of that culture and usher it into the present.
Tenderloin Museum welcomes the Rockin' Solidarity Chorus and Freedom Songs Revival for a joint concert in celebration of Education for Action: California Labor School 1942-1957, TLM's collaborative special exhibit with the Labor Archives at SFSU. Both of these labor choruses have deep roots in the Bay Area's contemporary community of labor activists (as well as abundant overlap between their members & activities), and are uniquely suited to perform in an homage, continuation, and extension of the choral and labor song traditions practiced by CLS. The Tenderloin's radical union-founded worker's school sported a "People's Songs" branch, a Jewish chorus, and many other groups and performances through which music intersected with labor culture.
Join us for a Saturday afternoon concert in celebration of the legacy of the California Labor School and in tribute to Black History Month. Free. 3pm - 4:30pm.
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Tenderloin Museum welcomes the Rockin' Solidarity Chorus and Freedom Songs Revival for a joint concert in celebration of Education for Action: California Labor School 1942-1957, TLM's collaborative special exhibit with the Labor Archives at SFSU. Both of these labor choruses have deep roots in the Bay Area's contemporary community of labor activists (as well as abundant overlap between their members & activities), and are uniquely suited to perform in an homage, continuation, and extension of the choral and labor song traditions practiced by CLS. The Tenderloin's radical union-founded worker's school sported a "People's Songs" branch, a Jewish chorus, and many other groups and performances through which music intersected with labor culture.
Join us for a Saturday afternoon concert in celebration of the legacy of the California Labor School and in tribute to Black History Month. Free. 3pm - 4:30pm.
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