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| Steve Earle on Music and Activism (10.9.07) |
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| Tickets/Registration: 212.415.5500 |
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| Media Contact: Meryl Wheeler, 212.413.8841, email |
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| STEVE EARLE ON MUSIC AND ACTIVISM |
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| In Conversation with Anthony DeCurtis |
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Tuesday, October 9, 8:15 pm, $26
92nd Street Y (1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street)
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| New York, NY, September, 19, 2007—Singer/songwriter, writer, actor and radio host STEVE EARLE talks about music and activism at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday, October 9, in conversation with music journalist Anthony DeCurtis. Earle's latest album, Washington Square Serenade, is set to be released on September 25, and he appears in concert at Town Hall on September 26. |
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Now a resident of New York, Earle is no stranger to political activism. His song "John Walker's Blues" was written from the point of view of "American Taliban" convict John Walker Lindh. His last two albums, 2004's Grammy Award-winning The Revolution Starts...Now and 2002's Jerusalem were outspokenly political. But even after a three-year hiatus from recording, on what he calls his "unapologetically personal" new album, Earle's passions shine through. As Anthony DeCurtis writes in the liner notes, "Steve's Hammer," which the singer dedicates to Pete Seeger, is "...a statement of Earle's conviction about the role that music can play in achieving social justice." Earle characterizes "City of Immigrants," which features the neo-folk Brazilian band Forro in the Dark, as an answer to the anti-immigrant rants of CNN anchor Lou Dobbs.
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As a speaker at the 92nd Street Y, Earle joins the roster of politically active artists who have appeared at the Y including Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Tony Kushner and Alec Baldwin.
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A prolific songwriter, Earle has released more than a dozen albums since his groundbreaking 1986 debut, Guitar Town. He is the author of a short story collection, Doghouse Roses, and is currently finishing his first novel. As an actor, Earle stars in the final season of HBO's The Wire; his cover of Tom Waits' "Way Down in the Hole" is the show's theme song this season. The song also appears on Washington Square Serenade. Not content with writing, acting and singing, Earle also hosts a weekly radio show, Hardcore Troubadour Radio, on Sirius Satellite Radio.
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| A couple of random but interesting trivia tidbits: |
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Earle's New York home is on the same Greenwich Village street that appears on the famous cover shot of Bob Dylan's The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (the one where Dylan is walking with then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo). |
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Oct 9, the night Earle comes to the Y, happens to be John Lennon's birthday (he would've been 67). |
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| ABOUT THE 92nd STREET Y |
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Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, the 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. The 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit each year — both in person and through the Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, the 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to 7,000 public school children through fully-subsidized arts education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org. |
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