Radical
Folk and Punk Artists Play The Juke Joint
David
Rovics
"...the
Pete Seeger of his time."
Seth
Tobocman
activist.
artist. anarchist.
with
local ribald folk songwriter, Sonny
Meadows
Feb.
9th, Sunday
at
the Juke Joint
"Long
Island’s Number One Punk Rockabilly Vampire
Bar!"
213
Bedford • Bellmore NY
8
PM — Only $5!
David
Rovics
is
a major new political song-writer, part reporter,
part folksinger. He has become a major part of
the anti-war, anti-corporate globalization movement.
"His
performance was laced with passion. With just
his voice and guitar he provoked laughter,
tears and cheers from the audience."
–Yavapai
College Rough Writer, Prescott, Arizona
"One
of the most thoughtful singers in progressive
America."
–Gerard
Colby
"Inspiring,
and inspired... For anyone despairing of finding
the next generation, worry no more!"
–AK
Press
"Rovics
has his fist tight on the pulse of intervention
through music."
–Sing
Out! Magazine
"...the
Pete Seeger of his time."
–The
Hartford Advocate
Seth
Tobocman
is a radical artist from NYC who performs work
based on his arresting, visual political comics.
He has written two books, War in the Neighborhood
(a graphic novel about the Tompkins Square struggle)
and You Don't Have to Fuck People Over to Survive.
"When
an artist intends to express a political notion,
the art itself may become secondary and confused...Sometimes
artists break through all these limits by taking
risks, by being so good that they can dance
under a heavy load. Tobocman does this regularly."
—Wes
Anderson, The Village Voice
"Tobocman's
text is like a poem and his illustrations are
like a punch in the gut."
—Jimmy
Jazz
Seth
has a new book of sketches,
"Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians for
My Parents" created while teaching art to
kids in Palestine and visiting Israel.
Sonny
Meadows:
"Mr.
Meadows displays an inventive sense of rhythm
and melody that runs the sonic gamut from Kurt
Weil to Southern chain gangs, ....along with hooky
choruses featuring female vocals that seep deep
into the psyche..."
–Robbie
Woliver, New York Times, November 2000
"If
anyone can express our times musically it's
Long Island's Sonny Meadows. Don't let his friendly
name fool you. Meadows is pissed! His latest
release, 'Bibles, Guns and Flags' is an astonishing
album of well produced, timely, topical protest
songs written for our times."
–The
Night Guide
"Meadows
has developed an underground cult status among
musicians and plain folk alike."
–ISLAND
EAR, 1/99
