I said, man, you better wear something besides that flannel shirt! He says, yeah, I got my longjohns on under this thing. And I asked him how he wanted to approach "This Land Is Your Land". At rehearsals the day before, it was freezing, like fifteen degrees and Pete was there he had his flannel shirt on. He was ao happy that day, it was like, Pete, you outlasted the bastards, man!.It was so nice. My own growing up in the sixties in towns scarred by race rioting made that moment nearly unbelievable and Pete had thirty extra years of struggle and real activism on his belt.
That day as we sang "This Land Is Your Land" I looked at Pete, the first black president of the United States was seated to his right, and I thought of the incredible journey that Pete had taken. How it moved from a labor movement song and with Pete's inspiration had been adapted by the civil rights movement. "As Pete and I traveled to Washington for President Obama's Inaugural Celebration, he told me the entire story of "We Shall Overcome". Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester, England Palais Omnisports De Paris-Bercy, Paris, France Pavelló Olímpic De Badalona, Barcelona, Spain Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tweeter Center For The Performing Arts, Mansfield, MA Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, IL Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY Tweeter Center At The Waterfront, Camden, NJ Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY Rockefeller Center, GE Building, Studio 6A, New York City, NY Sportpaleis Ahoy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Plaza De Toros De Las Ventas, Madrid, Spain
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