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The Muse and Whirled Retort March 2021

Chris Chandler's Muse and Whirled Retort March 2021

Hey Everybody,
It's that time again. I try to get these out on the first of each month. But I am a day late (and a dollar short, but that is a different story) already 1/6th of the way through 2021.


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Friday March 5th at 7 PM Eastern
The Mighty Monthly Muse
Each month on the first Friday I do a full set complete with special guests.

This Month all former music directors of mine REUNITE for one terrific show!
(in alphabetical order) Danny Dollinger and Christina Wulf, John Ellitott, David Rovics and Sean Shanahan,

The Show is a sliding scale - no one turned away for lack of funds,
If you have zero then pay zero.
But you do have to make a reservation and a zoom link will be sent to you.

To make a reservation Click Here:
or paste:
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~ ANNE FEENEY ~
A celebration of her life and music

Save the Date:
April 3, 2021 at 3pm EST, U.S.

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ENOUGH ALREADY!!!! of the crass commercial announcements - I know what you are here for...
It is time for

T.H.E. .M.U.S.E. .A.N.D. .W.H.I.R.L.E.D. .R.E.T.O.R.T.
from Highland Park, NJ
on March 02, 2021

I Dreamed I Saw Anne Feeney/Presente
By David Rovics/ by Chris Chandler


"Don't Mourn, Organize."

I dreamed I saw Anne Feeney,
it was on a picket line
Somewhere in the world
where the workers did combine
Cheering on the strikers
with a guitar in her hand
From Oregon to Ireland

Her roots remain in the earth from whence she came, and to where she will lie. Her grand father, an Irish immigrant, William Patrick Feeney used his violin as a tool to organize mine workers. I have no doubt that her grand children will do the same.

Hers was a life long commitment to some how, some way, and by any means necessary stand upon the long arc of the moral universe - use it as a trampoline - to assure that it continues to bend towards justice.

I dreamed I saw Anne Feeney
amid the foggy glow
Of the flash-bang grenades
outside the WTO
Singing songs against the war
at a military fort
Or making arguments in court

Crisscrossing the country in jalopies made of passion, from picket lines in the rain to tear gas in the streets.

If it happened in the last 69 years. She was a part of it.

"Fear a movement that sings," she insisted.

"Take the music to where it needs to be heard," she would say.

I dreamed I saw Anne Feeney
in the Texas hills
Singing songs around a torch at Kerrville
Crossing every bridge she could
with the wheels of a car
With some CDs in the trunk
along with a guitar

At Kerrville, I recall her singing to the working staff there (of which she was a part) "The Internationale." A small handful of cowpokes listened to her with their Stetsons tilted like the Victrola Dog until a Hispanic delivery man stepped up to stand beside her and sang, "Levantaos, prisioneros de hambre", a German tourist stepped up and offered "wird die Menschheit befreien."

A Swede, an Israeli and even, yes, a camera toting tourist offered a verse in Japanese. She medleyed the song into "Solidarity forever," and before she was done she had the entire ranch singing with a Texas accent, "The union makes us strong!"

I dreamed I saw Anne Feeney,
I dreamed she never fell
She was in Baja with her grandkids, doing swell
Sharing free advice
on how to find the cheapest flights
So you can be throwing Swedish snowballs
beneath the northern lights

It will take all of us to -- as Pete Seeger sang with her -- "Carry it on!" May we cary it on. It is a heavy lift, but together we are strong. It will take all of us.

I dreamed I saw Anne Feeney
get her first dose of vaccine
Instead of reading of the people
who died of Covid-19
In the New York Times,
nice things that they said
But I so much wish we could have
Anne still here instead

My friends, a giant has fallen, and we must all, now, stand upon each other's shoulders -megaphone in hand - as we announce to the world that from this vantage point we CAN see the arc of the moral universe as it bends towards justice.

Anne Feeney, Presente!

I dreamed I saw Anne Feeney

H.E.R.E.S. .D.A. .D.A.T.E.S.

March, 2021

5 Friday
7:00 PM
The Mighty Monthly Muse: Full Set
The infamous 8:30 Club---
including a reunion of former band leaders, as well as a small tribute to Anne Feeney and Lawerance Ferlinghetti
https://0830club.com/event/chris-chandlers-mighty-monthly-muse-2/

12 Friday
7:00 PM
The Poem of the Week
Chris Chandler's personal Face Book Live Stream---

19 Friday
7:00 PM
The Poem of the Week
Chris Chandler's personal Face Book Live Stream---

26 Friday
7:00 PM
The Poem of the Week
Chris Chandler's personal Face Book Live Stream---

April, 2021

2 Friday
7:00 PM
The Mighty Monthly Muse: Full Set
The infamous 8:30 Club---

3 Saturday
"A Celebration of the life of Anne Feeney"
RSVP to: annefeeneymemorial@gmail.com



~ ANNE FEENEY ~
A celebration of her life and music

Save the Date:
April 3, 2021 at 3pm EST, U.S.

RSVP to: annefeeneymemorial@gmail.com
(Login information will be sent as details are finalized)

9 Friday
7:00 PM
The Poem of the Week
Chris Chandler's personal Face Book Live Stream---------

updated: 1 day ago