Don't Mourn - Organise! A Talk About the Life and Music of Joe Hill with Holly Carter (+ Support: Steve White)
Don't Mourn - Organise! is Holly Carter's live tribute to one of America's most prolific and influential musical troubadours. In this deeply touching and comprehensively researched show, Holly discusses everything from Joe Hill's upbringing in Sweden to his posthumous impact on music and activism in the 20th and 21st Centuries, as well as performing a number of significant songs from his expansive catalogue.
Steve White from Steve White & The Protest Family shall open for Holly.
About Joe Hill: A songwriter, itinerant labourer, and union organizer, Joe Hill became famous around the world after a Utah court convicted him of murder. Even before the international campaign to have his conviction reversed, however, Joe Hill was well known in hobo encampments, on picket lines and at workers' rallies as the author of popular labor songs and as an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) agitator. Thanks in large part to his songs and to his stirring, well-publicized call to his fellow workers on the eve of his execution—"Don't waste time mourning, organize!"—Hill became, and he has remained, the best-known IWW martyr and labor folk hero. (from The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO))
About Holly Carter: Holly Carter is a singer-songwriter and multi-award-winning instrumentalist who, at 29 years old, has already established a reputation as one of Bristol’s leading fingerstyle guitarists and is one of the UK’s only professional female pedal steel players. Drawing inspiration from a varied musical upbringing, her musicality entwines aspects of folk, roots and Americana to create a mix that echoes everything from the likes of Gillian Welch to Chet Atkins. Harnessing an approach to music as a powerful tool for education and change, her songs weave joyously catchy melodies with thought-provoking lyrics that pay homage to a diverse collection of musical and personal heroes.
About Steve White: Steve White is the frontman of Steve White & The Protest Family, a band of punk minstrels who bring the traditions of the folk club, picket line, basement punk show, football terrace and boozy pub bray-along to the stage, inviting comparisons with The Clash, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Ian Dury and Billy Bragg.
Doors, 7pm. Show, 8pm. Unreserved seating and standing.
