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Rick Keller
I’ve Got a Song: A Living History of the McCarthy Era in New England
This program, told and sung from the heart, depicts Nancy Hood’s childhood experiences of growing up in a leftist family in New England during the McCarthy Era. Complementing the stories is a selection of protest songs that range in style and origin from spirituals to union songs to a haunting love song written for the Rosenbergs. A backdrop of slides of family photographs and newspaper clippings completes this living history lesson that spans the mid 1940s through early 1960s.
Needs: Slide projector and screen; water
Rick Keller graduated from Earlham College with a major in music. He has studied piano, recorder, guitar, pipe organ, and conducting. He grew up in a left wing family and learned to sing and play songs of protest at an early age. A professional urban and environmental planner, Rick has recently relocated to a co-housing community in Amherst, Ma.