Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice presents a free concert for those impacted by fires in Southern Oregon. George Mann will perform at Shelter D at Emigrant Lake this Friday July 23, 7-10 p..m. Concert organizers encourage people to arrive at 6:30 for socializing, concert begins right at 7 p.m.
This is a concert for fire survivors, their families and the Rogue Valley community shaken by the Alameda and Obenchain fires.
This concert is sponsored by Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice, Health Care for All Oregon Rogue Valley, and Veterans For Peace (VFP156). SOJWJ brings together labor unions, religious congregations, student groups and community organizations to improve working peoples’ standard of living, job security and their right to organize. Find out more at www.sojwj.org.
A former union organizer, George Mann hails from Ithaca, New York and has been coming to Ashland yearly for almost 20 years. He has worked with and produced albums featuring such folk music legends as Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger and Tom Paxton and produced national tours of the US and Australia in honor of the Almanac Singers (2013) and Joe Hill (2015). George brings his experience as a union organizer and educator to his concerts– stories and songs about real events and the struggle for a better life. He released his latest CD, “The Coronavirus Sessions,” in 2020 and has a new album coming out in September 2021.
