TOM NEILSON
(Greenfield MA)

Performance Date

Sunday, Sept 6

Afternoon Concert - Threadgill Theater

 

Award-winning political satirist, Tom Neilson offers a good dose of humor, compassion, and outrage in songs about real people's struggles, as he skewers the behavior of the greedy and powerful in the media, corporate, and political world.

 

His farm roots are meshed throughout his music and intertwine with international themes from the dozen years he has lived abroad, mostly in Africa and South America.

 

A long history of combining art and activism in the various realms of human rights has resulted in his music appearing in four environmental documentaries. Cynthia McKinney says Tom provides a voice for all those who believe in the power of folk music to effect change.

For more information on the Tom, go to www.tomneilson.com .