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Musical guests connected with the labor movement. Hosted by Chris Bangert-Drowns
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Part story-telling, part song, and part stand-up political comedy, Baltimore-based Ryan Harvey presents kaleidoscopic narratives of political history and personal stories aimed at moving the listener to act on serious issues effecting the world today. Long blending music and activism, in 2015 Ryan launched Firebrand Records with Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello to support fellow politically-charged musicians. A year later he recorded the previously unfinished Woody Guthrie song “Old Man Trump” with Morello and Ani DiFranco, which Guthrie penned while living in a segregated apartment complex owned by Donald Trump’s father Fred. Last year Ryan released a two-part album with Kareem Samara and Shireen Lilith called “Thin Blue Border,” which blends American and Arabic protest folk music. He has taken his powerful performances around the world for almost two decades. Find out more at ryanharveymusic.com

Hosted by Chris Garlock

Music and conversation with the DC Labor Chorus, performing Bev Grant's "We Were There."
Directed by Elise Bryant, Steve Jones on piano. Singers: Larry Bostian, Becky Daiss, Wes Eastridge, Huayra Forster, Nancy Magill, Susan McNelis, Junette Pinkney, David Sands, Paulette Saunders, Susan Schreiber, Ashley See & Sarah Starrett. 

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Chris Bangert-Drowns and Robin Smith. 

Hosted by Chris Garlock

Music and conversation with jazz quartet Black Coffee, led by retired IBEW member Dick Bissell on drums, Don Oliver (bass), Jared Marx (keyboard) and Fred Puhala (sax). 
Setlist: Georgia, Satin Doll, Night Train, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, C Jam Blues.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Robin Smith, Chris Bangert-Drowns and Katea Stitt. 

Hosted by Chris Garlock

Music and conversation with Desanguashington, a Colombian American band from Washington, D.C, that fuses traditional Colombian folk music with more modern sounds including pop and rock. Guitarist Richard works at CASA.   
Considered one of the premier world music bands in the Washington, D.C. area, and a favorite of the Latino community and those who enjoy international music, Desanguashington comes to WPFW to share some of their original songs -- currently recording in studio-- and some classics of Colombian folklore.  
Find out more: Website; Facebook; Twitter or Instagram

Hosted by Chris Garlock

​Music and conversation with members of the DC Labor Chorus, previewing their December 1 20th anniversary concert, honoring founding director Elise Bryant. Click here for details. Click here for the livestream on Facebook. 

​Hosted by Elise Bryant

​Music and conversation with the inimitable Pam Parker and the irrepressible Steve Jones.

​Hosted by Chris Garlock

CLICK HERE to check out videos from the  show!
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MOOSE JAW BLUEGRASS plays bluegrass rooted in the high lonesome sound of the 1940’s - sullied by an affinity for cheap brews, swampy southern rock anthems, and stamped with an outlaw country attitude: Moose Jaw brings the timeless tradition of American roots music into a new era. The band focuses putting a new spin on the old-time tales of ramblers, rovers, and revivals. Since 2016, audiences from all walks of life have hooted and hollered at Moose Jaw’s “blazing fast, workin’ class, and often crass brand of bluegrass.” 

Bass player Geff King (2nd from right) played a labor festival with Hazel Dickens; Jason Roe (banjo, middle) is in the organizing department at the IAM, and a member of OPEIU local 2; Stacey Sinclair (fiddle, second from left) is in the teacher's union; Addison Bartlett (mandolin, right), Josh Taylor (left) and Jason's grandfather was an IBEW Local 26 electrician, Jason's father (Josh's uncle) is currently an assistant business agent there.

www.moosejawbluegrass.com
facebook.com/moosejawbluegrass

Engineered by Ciera Shine
 
 
 
 

Hosted by Chris Garlock

​This award-winning hard driving bluegrass band has only been together since January 2018, but they’ve already won the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Bluegrass Band Competition.
Made up of of five of the most promising up-and-comers on the D.C. bluegrass scene, Moonlight Drive mixes progressive bluegrass, country, and traditional American music with a solid dose of the traditional bluegrass the band members grew up immersed in.
Led by Shannon Bielski’s driving vocals and fiddle, Moonlight Drive features Kyle Windbeck on mandolin, Rob Benzing on banjo, Parker Gondella on guitar and Greg Mulley (AFGE member) playing bass.  Together they deliver a hard hitting bluegrass performance that is sure to please any audience.
Find out more on their Facebook page

Labor [email protected] produced by Jason Roe; engineering by Ciera Shine and Robin Smith; photo by Chris Garlock.

For the latest local labor news, go to dclabor.org.
 
On today’s labor calendar, Stand with Dulles airport workers who are fighting for justice!
At 11am this morning at the Washington Dulles Marriott.
Then at 2pm this afternoon, catch this week’s edition of Your Rights at Work, here on
WPFW.
 
In today's labor history, on this date in 1877, in Chicago, 30 workers were killed by federal troops, and more than 100 wounded at the "Battle of the Viaduct" during the Great Railroad Strike.
And on this date in 1992, the Americans With Disabilities Act took effect, requiring employers to offer reasonable accommodations to qualified disabled employees and banning discrimination against such workers.

​Today’s labor quote is by Wendell Phillips, the 19th Century American orator and abolitionist, who said:
“We affirm, as a fundamental principle, that labor, the creator of wealth, is entitled to all it creates.”

LIVE from the 14th Street Busboys and Poets. Hosted by Union City Radio's Chris Garlock. 

Sponsored by the Washington DC Federation of Musicians, AFM 161-710. Engineering by Jerry Paris and Robin Smith; produced by Ed Malaga and co-produced by Chris Bangert-Drowns. 

The 2018 DC LaborFest wraps up with a night of jazz with local musicians from the Washington Musicians Union: 
Carl Cornwell, saxophone; Wade Beach, piano; Steve Novosel, bass; Nasar Abadey, drums. 

Carl Cornwell: Saxophonist with Project Natale (https://www.reverbnation.com/projectnatale), Mike Thornton Jazz Collective and Maurice Lyles. Co-founder of Gil Scott-Heron's Amnesia Express before embarking on a career in computer systems development. After moving to Washington, DC. Carl became a mainstay at Harold's Rogue and Jar night club, performing regularly as a sideman and as leader of his own quintet. Carl toured the US and Europe as saxophonist, arranger and sometime pianist with Gil Scott-Heron. 

Wade Beach is widely respected for his harmonic sophistication and superb technique, which knows no stylistic limitations. He holds a master’s degree in piano performance from the University of Maryland.  He entered the world of jazz as a protégé of Sir Roland Hanna and toured the globe many times over with the United States Air Force Band jazz ensemble, The Airmen of Note.  Mr. Beach keeps an active teaching and performing schedule, performing with groups around the DC area, including The Jazz Update Band.

Steve Novosel is an American professional jazz bassist and educator whose 40-plus year career has spanned numerous genre, from traditional jazz to swing, bebop, mainstream and avant garde. Steve has toured with Red Norvo, Tal Farlow, Al Grey and most recently, with David “Fathead” Newman. In addition to his previous 57 recordings, he has several on Mapleshade including Portraits in Ivory and Brass with Jack Walrath and Larry Willis and Every Rung Goes Higher with Willis and Steve Berrios plus singer Kenyetta.

Nasar Abadey is a drummer and composer who’s the founder, leader and driving force of SUPERNOVA, and who has also built a solid reputation as a sideman with several groups, performing with many national artists throughout his career. Abadey began playing drums at age five, drawing influences from powerhouse drummers such as Tony Williams, Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey and cousin Frankie Dunlop, to name a few. Nasar Abadey creates music which he refers to as Multi-D: multi-dimensional, multi-directional. Mr. Abadey is currently a Professor of Jazz Percussion in the Jazz Studies Department at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD