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It is not too late to help the McCutcheon Team on our Jan 18, 2016 concert. We need bakers of oatmeal and raisin cookies and chocolate chip cookies (no nuts) for the snack bar. Please bring cookies to the church kitchen before 6pm on Jan. 18. We also need help to set up Club Saint…
In a little over five weeks John McCutcheon will be visiting us again for his thirteenth annual Martin Luther King Day concert at St. James’. Since he was here for last year’s concert, he has toured the country and also performed Si Kahn’s one man play “Joe Hill’s Last Will” at St. James’ as well…
Reminds me of a Baker’s Dozen. January 18th will be the Baker’s-Dozenth time John McCutcheon has sung “in concert” at St. James’. And, if you’re counting his visits, it will be the fourteenth time has he visited St. James’, the last time to pay homage to the hundredth anniversary of Joe Hill’s death. The actual…
“I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night…” It’s June 13, 2015 and I did see Joe Hill…”alive as you and me” the words sung by Paul Robeson as we left the theater Saint J. They made me realize I had seen Joe Hill. And I was that callow, young reporter Joe addressed throughout the…
John McCutcheon’s portrayal of Joe Hill honors both a folk music hero and a labor hero. John McCutcheon probably would not be the masterful folksinger he is without Joe Hill. For that matter there probably wouldn’t have been a Woody Guthrie, no Pete Seeger and numerous other folk musicians. Without Joe Hill protest songs may…
Execution is a pretty grim subject. So imagine a man telling us his life story on the night before he is executed, executed for a crime he did not commit. How is a play treating this subject going to find its way to humor, to be uplifting? Let labor historian and songwriter Si Kahn write…
John McCutcheon Becomes Joe Hill In the wake of the industrial revolution people came cheap. At least cheap is what many captains of industry thought because machines could produce goods faster and cheaper. Not everyone thought that way, especially people having a hard time making a living in hard and dirty jobs. Joe Hill, a…
One hundred years ago Joe Hill, a Swedish immigrant to the U.S., worked for the IWW to promote the idea of a shorter work week and higher pay. Picked up by the Utah police and charged with a double murder, he refused to testify for himself and was convicted and sentenced to die. Although many…