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[David Rovics] Next Friday, April 21st at the Heartland Cafe in CHICAGO! 9:00pm

[David Rovics] Next Friday, April 21st at the Heartland Cafe in CHICAGO! 9:00pm
From: DRovics (at) aol.com
Subject: [David Rovics] Next Friday, April 21st at the Heartland Cafe in CHICAGO!

Hey folks in Illinois,
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The Boston-to-Minneapolis tour with me and the great Scottish singer-songwriter, Alistair Hulett, begins tomorrow, and we're in Chicago next Friday! Below are details, followed by a press release for the tour. Please feel free to spread the word about it and come to the show with 10 of your friends!!!
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Friday, April 21st, 9 pm, Heartland Cafe, 7000 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago, Illinois.
DAVID ROVICS &
ALISTAIR HULETT
The other Transatlantic Alliance!
April, 2006 US Tour coming to a town near you!
David Rovics is from Massachusetts. Writes incredibly perceptive, intelligent, incisive, angry songs, sung to a supremely accomplished acoustic guitar backing: the heir to the mantle of Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs.  He is permanently on tour – in the US, the UK and all over mainland Europe - and recently returned from the occupied territories in Palestine. He sings at political rallies and demonstrations all over the place, and his songs are becoming increasingly heard on the radio, from ‘Democracy Now’ in the US to Andy Kershaw’s national BBC folk music radio show in the UK. He’s very prolific, too, releasing 9 CDs in the past 10 years.
”In these days of ongoing neo-conservatism he carries the torch of dissent and protest – in fact if the great Phil Ochs were to come back from the dead tonight he’d probably be hailed as the new David Rovics” (Andy Kershaw, BBC Radio)

www.davidrovics.com
Alistair Hulett is from Glasgow, Scotland. The last 30 years have seen some wonderful progenitors of traditional Irish and British music. Folk such as Christy Moore, Richard Thompson, Dick Gaughan, and Leon Rosselson have both drawn from such traditional idioms, and helped refine, popularize,and repoliticize the genre. For too long, the name of Alistair Hulett has been (criminally) absent from that pantheon. Perhaps that's because, while Scottish, he composed, recorded and performed for the first 10 years of his musical life in (relative exile in) Australia. It was there, in the mid-80s that he formed the seminal Roaring Jack, who if it wasn't for such accidents of geography, would have been as famous, and influential as the Moving Hearts,Pogues and Fairport Convention. Since the 90s, he has released numerous solo Lps, most recently (fittingly enough) with the aid of Dave Swarbrick (himself, from his days in Fairport Convention in the 70s onwards, one of the finest exponents of the fiddle, and traditional music).
Now back in his native Glasgow, Hulett continues to mine the best of the Celtic roots music, while producing original songs of stunning beauty, relevance, and political and social weight.
“An intense singer, radiating conviction, and a genuinely imaginative lyricist.” (Froots UK)
www.folkicons.co.uk/alistair.htm
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David Rovics
www.davidrovics.com
www.soundclick.com/davidrovics
DRovics (at) aol.com
(617) 872-5124
P.O. Box 300995
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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