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| Saturday March 28, 2009 |
Event: Paul Baker-Hernandez
Location: Blacksburg
Time: 7:30 PM
Reservations required: yes |
Feedback: $10 suggested donation. Paul is an Eco-minstrel hailing from Nicaragua. This tour will raise awareness, money and support for his Eco-programs, Water Not War and Echoes of Silence. (http://waternotwar.pbwiki.com and http://echoesofsilence-ecosdelsilencio.pbwiki.com)
Paul's ‘Ode to Starbucks’ and ‘That S*****g Cellphone!’ inspire laughter and listeners’ own creativity, while the passionate beauty of flamenco guitar, US/Latin American songs of struggle, and even Scottish traditional music moves people to take action for justice. 'I Thought I Heard Sweet Víctor, Singing in the Night', written by Paul in the house of Victor Jara, Chile’s martyred singer-songwriter, is for many their finest song ever.
Over the years, Paul has shared the stage/sung with Inti Illimani and Joan Jara, Carlos Mejia Godoy, Jackson Browne and Martin Sheen; and for Britain's largest-ever crowd, 300,001 (the one was the Pope!). He's led a posse of bishops on an anti-nuclear invasion of Queen Elizabeth’s private castle at Balmoral, taken part in peace and justice festivals from Chile to Canada, driven in solidarity caravans to Cuba and El Salvador, worked as in-country staff-person for the US Nicaragua Network and the UK Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, published a couple of books, translated and recorded Victor Jara's songs, and generally had a high old time. He shares all this via concerts, lectures, homilies, workshops, conferences, classes, etc., shaping his presentations to the interests of his listeners as far as possible.
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