Songs for hope & unity | benefit concert for Barack Obama | September 20
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Please come to SONGS FOR HOPE & UNITY,
a benefit concert for Barack Obama,
sponsored by the Minnesota Mother's Peace Network.
September 20
7:30pm
Cedar Cultural Center
Suggested Donation: $15/person, $20/family ... Children welcome!
Doors open at 6:30pm
Cedar Cultural Center is located at 416 Cedar Ave. So. Minneapolis. (map)
Call 612-338-2674 for tickets
MUSICIANS
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Prudence Johnson
Prudence Johnson’s career has taken her from honky-tonks to Carnegie Hall, from the theater stage to the Silver Screen, from the Midwest to the Middle East. She is a regular guest on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the country.
“Prudence Johnson is a quartet ... a jazz singer, a country songbird, a polished ballad interpreter and an urban folkie.”
-- The Cincinnati Enquirer
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Lucy Michelle and the
Velvet Lapelles
Michelle and her cohorts have quietly started snowballing one of the Twin Cities’ most diverse and rapidly growing fan bases. With a sound that combines dashes of old-fashioned country, folk, and polka with otherworldly tinges of Gypsy and flamenco, Michelle’s music appeals just as much to the NPR crowd as it does to those of the rock club persuasion.
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Kip Peltoniemi
An old-time button accordion player featuring unusual accordion instrumentals, humorous songs, dubious folklore, tall tales, and out-and-out lies. All of Kip’s musical material has been independently tested, grade and certified, achieving an incredible 99.7 % -- or Grade AAA -- ethnicity rating. Kip’s solo album is entitled Minnesota Tango.
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Linda Breitag
Lively and varied fiddle music of French Canada, including reels, waltzes, gigues, galopes, and wonderful ‘crooked’ tunes. With her percussive foot-tapping this singer/songwriter paints a picture of the culture surrounding traditional French Canadian music.
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The Mamas
Dubbed “urban eclectic folk” with songs ranging from folk and pop to bluegrass, country and gospel. Musicians: Shelley Diment, Ann Fate, Burna Krugler, Rebecca Buller, Priscilla Thomas.
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MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Arvonne Fraser
We are delighted to have Arvonne Fraser as the MC of ‘Songs for Hope & Unity.’
Arvonne Fraser is a senior fellow emerita of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and co-founder and director of the Institute’s Center on Women and Public Policy, former director of the International Women’s Rights ActionWatch, former ambassador to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women and coordinator of the Office of Women in Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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OTHER CREDITS
Stage backdrop/design by Ta-coumba Aiken
Poster by The Design Company
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