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February 14, 2003
Folk
Duo Charlie King and Karen Brandow to Perform February 20
Nationally known folk
duo Charlie King and Karen Brandow will perform Carry It On,
their musical chronology of popular movements for social change
from slavery to civil rights, Thursday, February 20, at 7:30 pm
in McCulloch Auditorium of Pratt Hall. The performance is free.
In Carry It On, songs once sung in struggle are strung
together by a historical narrative linking parallel movements
and one historical era to the next, including slavery, abolitionist,
economic justice, and civil rights songs. “As we celebrate
Black History Month, we are delighted to bring to campus these
two lifelong activists and extraordinary singers,” says
Andrea Ayvazian, dean of the Office of Religious and Spiritual
Life, which is sponsoring the performance. “We really relish
every chance we get to perform on campus,” King says. “It
is from young people, especially college people, that we get the
energy to do the kind of work we need to do in order to survive
in this new millennium.”
King has been at the heart of American folk music for more than
thirty-five years. His songs have been recorded and sung by a
number of performers, including Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie
Gilbert, John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, and Peggy Seeger. His
honors include an Indie award for one of the three top folk recordings
of 1984, the 1998 Peacemaker Award from the War Resisters League
(shared with Odetta), and the Sacco-Vanzetti Social Justice Award,
which he received in 1999. King has released a dozen solo albums
since 1976, three albums with the touring ensemble Bright Morning
Star, and numerous compilation albums with other artists.
Brandow has been performing with King since 1998. While doing
human rights work in Guatemala from 1986 to 1994, she studied
voice, guitar, and performance, singing at numerous political
and cultural events in that nation. She broadened her repertoire
to include Latin American music of the “Nueva Cancion”
or New Song movement, performing in both English and Spanish.
King and Brandow’s 2001 recording I Struck Gold did
just that, winning rave reviews and much radio airplay.
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