Cartoons Sunday!

Pray for rain for Trump's spectacle but not a few Songs for Woody.

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There are still thunderstorms, high winds and rain in forecast for Trump’s Ultimate Friggin Catastrophe event in D.C. today, but we have two previews this morning:

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For my peeps here and near in Rockland, Westchester, up the Hudson Valley, north Jersey, Conn., maybe even NYC: First preview anywhere for my upcoming PBS film, “Woody Guthrie and The Ghost of Tom Joad,” narrated by Rosanne Cash, tomorrow night at 8 here in Nyack. You can watch most of the film, hear live music by Tom Chapin and The Chapin Sisters, and then they will lead a community singout of “All You Fascists” and a little ditty titled “This Land Is Your Land.” I will chat with Woody’s granddaughter Anna Canoni and author Daniel Wolff. Plus the premiere of my new 7-minutes tribute to Woody with Dylan, Bruce, Mavis, Lucinda, Tweedy and etc.

Here is the link to read more or order tickets and a trailer below. And below that, the Chapins may well repeat this stunning version of “Deportee.” Let me know if you are attending and we can chat.

Music Pick

I hear that there was tribute to Stephen Colbert’s wife Evie in Montclaim on Friday night at which he sang, with former bandleader Louis Cato, Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home to Me.” I can only find it in a shaky “reel” but here is the recording the two made some time back:

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Photo Finish

From my camera to you: Memorial in Berlin along Bernauer Strasse with pictures of everyone from the East who died attempting to escape over or under or around the Berlin Wall, with remnants of the wall behind it.