Tuesday 4th September in the STUC building
A superb evening of poetry and song bringing to mind the common struggle of ordinary people against poverty, injustice & all inhumanity ... a struggle for equality, a better world, for human dignity & socialism.
Artists:
David Betteridge
Leanne Coyle
Eddie Coyle
Etta Dunn
Alastair Findlay
George McEwan
Ewan McVicar
PART 1
PART 2
Poems and songs in the first set of the programme: -
WILLIAM BLAKE
“Holy Thursday” & “London” read by David Betteridge
THOMAS BURNSIDE
“A Voice from the Workshop” read by Etta Dunn
MARY BROOKSBANK
“The Jute Mill Song” sung by Leanne & Eddie Coyle
& “The Shipbuilders” read by Leanne
GEORGE McEWAN
“Ballad for Upper Clyde” read by GeorgeMcEwan
& “The Price of Coal” read by GeorgeMcEwan
NANCY NICHOLSON
“Who Pays the Piper” sung by Leanne & Eddie Coyle
PAULINE PRIOR-PITT
“Criminals” read by Etta Dunn
MARY BROOKSBANK
“To the Reactionaries” read by Leanne Coyle
BERTOLT BRECHT
“A Worker Reads History” read by Etta Dunn
MARY BROOKSBANK
“Labour Omnia Vincit” read by George McEwan
EWAN MacCOLL & PEGGY SEEGER
“Legal, Illegal” sung by Leanne & Eddie Coyle
Poems and songs in the second set of the programme: -
William McGonagall - The Tay Bridge Disaster (1879) - poem
G.W.Hunt - 'By Jingo' (1877) & Henry Pettitt 'I Don't Want to Fight' (1878) -music-hall songs
Patrick MacGill - Played Out (1916) - poem
Bob Stewart - An Anti-Militarist Version of 'A Man's A Man' (1917) - song
John S Clarke - If? (1919) - poem parodying Kipling
Joe Hill - Casey Jones (early 20th C) - Wobbly song
Hugh MacDiarmid - Crowdieknowe (1925) - poem
Traditional - Jarama Valley (Spain, 1930s) - song
Sorley MacLean - Heroes (1940s) - poem
Matt McGinn - Boomerang (1950s) - song
Thurso Berwick (Maurice Blytheman) - The Eskimo Republic (1960s) - song
David Betteridge - Fighting
Back (2008) - poem
Ewan McVicar - Ga's Song (1980s) - song
Hamish Henderson - Freedom Come All Ye (1960s) - song/art poem
