MAY/JUNE 2017: Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory, Volume 11, Number 2

Welcome to the May/June edition of the Fellow Travelers' Advisory.  This is the best way that I know to keep in touch with all the folks I know.  I'm so grateful to all the friends, family, followers, folkies and fellow travelers who support my work and make my life possible. The "reply" function works, so please let me know what you're up to - especially if you have news my 10,000 subscribers would be interested in.  For example, last month my faithful subscriber and dear friend Barbara Lebeau suggested larger type - VOILA!

Maryellen Deckard showed me how to enlarge any type that is too small on a PC laptop - Just down the button  with the windows logo on it adjacent to the space bar while pressing the + key.  To return, press the "-"  key (otherwise known as the hyphen).  If you know the keystrokes for Apple laptops, let me know.

As you can see from my tour schedule below, it's going to be a busy summer starting in FIVE DAYS -  If you're in or around Austin at 3PM on Sunday, May 21st, make a beeline to the air-conditioned Saxon Pub.  I played there first in 1990! This time I'll be joined by FABULOUS musicians who played on my new benefit/tribute CD 'WAR ON THE WORKERS' - available for purchase or download at cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid  Join me, the Hot Nut Riveters, Oliver Steck and more at 3PM, Sunday March 21, at the Saxon Pub!  You'll leave energized, inspired and uplifted!!!

2017 will be a challenging year for us all.  Fortunately, I get to keep doing what I have always been doing - raising hell, bearing witness, speaking truth to power and singing through the storm.  I hope to see a lot of you out there doing the same!

Don't forget to support the Utah Phillips Library - https://www.generosity.com/education-fundraising/utah-phillips-flanger-railroad-car-restoration

If you've checked out http://annefeeney.com lately, you'll see it's wildly different and under construction.  I could really use some help with it.  Let me know if you can help.

I'm including a new feature to improve my show.  I've gotten a holder that will display my backlit lyrics on my iPad so that I can jettison all my patter about forgetting lyrics and just sing the songs!  This too has a steep learning curve for me, so if anyone coming to Kerrville knows about iPads and Forscore, PLEASE help me to get this system up and runing!

Hope to see you somewhere on my Summer of Resistance tour! If you don't live in any of the cities I'm performing, I bet you know someone who does!  Please forward this newsletter to your friends. That's how it works.  You can be certain that your friends will not hear about these shows from my corporate sponsors  The calendar updates continuously at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html

Thanks for your help, loyalty and support.  I couldn't do this without you. 

Anne Feeney - 
Summer of Resistance Tour

Sunday, May 21st, 2017 3:00 PM CD RELEASE w many special guests! Saxon Pub 1320 S. Lamar Austin, TX 512-448-2552 https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1481799?_ga=2.96070357.858604901.1494358221-2125165344.1494358220&__utma=1.1656138213.1494358220.1494358220.1494358220.1&__utmb=1.1.10.1494358220&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1494358220.1.1.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=(not%20provided)&__utmv=-&__utmk=44956964 Price: $5 Wonderful guests will be on hand to celebrate the releasea of benefit/tribute CD : WAR ON THE WORKERS also available for purchase/download @ http;//CDBaby.com/all/unionmaid

Saturday, June 17th, 2017 7:30 PM Diane Crowe presents Anne Feeney in Concert Mt. Toby Concerts for Peace and Social Change Leverett, MA https://mttobyconcerts.wordpress.com/

Sunday, June 18th, 2017 7:00 PM Barre Historical Society presents Anne Feeney, Unionmaid and Hellraiser with special guest Charlie King!! Socialist Labor Hall 46 Granite Street Barre, VT 802-331-0013 http://oldlaborhall.org/ Price: $15  I've been dreaming about playing at this National Historic Landmark since I first laid eyes on it in 1997! This dream-come-true is 20 years in the making - Please join me for a wonderful show!!!

Thursday, June 22nd, 2017 - Saturday, June 24th, 2017 at 2:00 PM Great Labor Arts Exchange iTommy Douglas Center for Labor Renewal 10000 New Hampshire Ave NW Silver Spring, MD 20903 http://laborheritage.org Price: see webste

Saturday, July 1st, 2017 7:00 PM Anne Feeney Summer of Resistance Tour Monkey House 1638 University Avenue Berkeley, CA http://www.themonkeyhouse.org/IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! jOIN ME AND AILEEN VANCE AND OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS AT THIS GREAT VENUE!

Sunday, July 2nd, 2017 7:00 PM Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Tour Mendocino Community Center 998 School St Mendocino, CA 94582 http://www.communitycenterofmendocino.org//rkarch@mcn.com is the contact

Monday, July 3rd, 2017 8:00 PM Health Care for All Oregon presents Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Tour! Unitarian Universalist Church 4th and C Ashland, OR http://hcao.org/ Price: free!   Wes Brain  brain@mind.net is organizing the show

Wednesday, July 5th, 2017 7:00 PM Anne Feeney Summer of Resistance Tour Siuslaw Public Library 1460 Ninth St. Florence, OR http://annefeeney.comI'm delighted to return to this wonderful venue. See you there!

Friday, July 7th, 2017 - Sunday, July 9th, 2017 at 12:00 PM Oregon Country Fair (tentative)

Thursday, July 13th, 2017 8:00 PM Summer of Resistance - Portland - with the Chris Chandler Show and  Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Fremont Theater 2393 NE Fremont Ave Portland, OR 239 http://www.fremonttheater.com/events/?view=calendar&month=July-2017

Friday, July 14th, 2017 8:00 PM The Chris Chandler Show invites Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Tour to Remember Woody Guthrie TBA Esticada, OR

Saturday, July 15th, 2017 7:30 PM Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Tour Tacoma, WA Marilyn Kimmerling is the contact

Sunday, July 16th, 2017 8:00 PM Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Tour tba Seattle, WA PAUL BIGMAN is the contact

Wednesday, July 19th, 2017 8:00 PM Cumberland BC Hosts  Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Tour House Concert at Diana Paige's Cumberland, BC Canada 250-336-8893the perfect sorbet between Vancouver Folk Fest and Islands Fest. Call Diana or email her at dipaige@gmail.com for reservations and directions

Saturday, July 22nd, 2017 8:00 PM Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Tour - Benefit Concert for Larry Hildes tba Bellingham, WA  Gary Kantner and Betsy Pernotto are the organizers

Sunday, July 23rd, 2017 7:00 PM Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Tour tba Sequim/Port Angeles, WA

Wednesday, July 26th, 2017 8:00 PM Anne Feeney's Summer of Resistance Tour tba Grey's Harbor, WA

Sunday, July 30th, 2017 7:00 PM Anne Feeney Summer of Resistance Tour with Eliot Kenin in Eliot's barn! 1072 Pereira Martinez, CA 94553 800-965-1302Eliot is the author of "You Ain't Been Doin' Nothin' if You Ain't Been Called a Red" and "F#%k Off and Die!" I am overjoyed to be sharing an evening with him performing in his barn. Please join us for potluck and music, starting at 7PM eliotkenin29@gmail.com    Call or email Eliot for reservations and directions or DIRECTIONS - IMPORTANT!! from berkeley or oakland, take Highway24 toward Orinda - go north 3 miles to Bear Creek Road. Turn right. Bear Creek becomes Pereira Look for signs to barn on right. don't wear high heels. road from Pinole is still washed out. Bring a warm jacket. It's cool at night.

Monday, July 31st, 2017 7:00 PM LaborFest presents Anne Feeney and Roy Zimmerman!! ILWU Local 34 801 2nd St San Francisco, CA 94107

March 2016 - Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - Volume 10, Number Eight

Happy Spring to all of you - my friends, family, folkies and fellow travelers!
This is by far the mildest winter I can ever remember.  It's supposed to be seventy degrees on Sunday! My bulbs are out.  I'm gearing up for the Ireland trip - just around the corner ... and I hope you have come through this winter as well as I have.  I got a rude surprise on St Patrick's Day with vestibular neuritis and "jumpy eyes" (nystagmus). It was very much like a cartoon, but I wasn't laughing. A few tests, IV meds and an overnight stay at Shadyside Hospital (thanks, 5th floor nurses!) and I was pronounced good to go. That collapsed my hopes for getting the newsletter out in time for St. Patrick's Day, though.

I have taken a lot of flak from Hillary supporters since I announced my support for Bernie Sanders. If the convention fairly nominates Hillary as the Democratic Candidate for president, I will vote for her. But why would anyone pass up the chance to cast a primary vote for a fellow who wants to break up the banks, tax wall streeters, deliver expanded medicare to all,end mass incarceration, get public financing for elections and end the $$$ that buys elections and candidates,  provide free public education through grade sixteen in all public schools, reinvest in our infrastructure??  My heart, my time and my very limited money are with Bernie - as long as he's in, I'm all in with Bernie.

March Wall of Fame 

I am forever grateful to those of you who responded to my plea for financial support. You kept me from defaulting on my obligations.  It's finally beginning to sink in that my career choice will no longer support me.  My health can no longer tolerate my constant touring.  The pension I receive from the Musicians' Union is $295/month. I receive $790 from Social Security. My mortgage is $700/month. My utilities average $600.  Even when my two rental properties are occupied and generating $1750/month, the taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance eat up a huge portion of that income.  I've got a lot of good work coming up at the Tommy Douglas Center in Washington, DC in April. I've got the Ireland tour coming up.  I've got a very nice festival in Michigan in July... that is all that I've confirmed. My fundraising style is very similar to Bernie's -- lots of small donors.  There's a Paypal "DONATE" button on the right hand side of this page.  If you'd rather send a check, please send a most welcome check:

Anne Feeney

2240 Milligan Ave

Pittsburgh, PA  15218

This month's Twenty Wall of Famers: 

Dave H - UK; Janet A and Michael R - Oakland, CA; Nina F. - Piedmont, CA; Per Elis J. - Kopparberg, SV; Tom and Cookie D - Pittsburgh, PA; Ed D. - Seattle, WA; Pat H. and Sandy O;Virginia  F. - San Diego, CA; Janet, Judy and Carol W - San Diego, CA; Sue D. - Oakland, CA; John M and Deborah McK - Pittsburgh, PA; Bob and Barb I - Detroit, MI; Carol VH; Michael V, Janet T - Lexington, KY; Ruth F and Don W - Ontario; Dawn McD - Detroit,MI; Mary W- Seattle, WA; Ann F - Leverett, MA; Lee G - OKC, OK

I am so grateful for your help and support!

St Patrick's Day 
a video of "The Sick Note" 
re-enacted by Legos People

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA5RGI3zn20

Thanks to Loretta Santejka for the link!

At this point I'm not completely sure, but I think my tour may be sold out.  If you still want to go with me this year, check with Vicki Belinoski vbelinoski@austin.rr.com vbelinoski@austin.rr.com and she'll do her best to accommodate you.

So Mick is on his way home and he passes by his friend Rory's farm.  Mick is horrified to see his old friend stark naked and wildly gesticulating - dancing and pumping his hips as he runs in circles around his tractor.

Mick leaps from his vehicle and runs toward his old friend.  "What are doing, Rory - have you lost your mind??"

Rory says, "Not at all, Mick. I'm doing as my doctor recommended. You see, my wife and I have been having troubles in the bedroom, and Dr. O'Hara suggested that I do something sexy to a tractor."  (Read it aloud if you don't get it.)

Oscars 2016

My son, Dan Berlin and his fabulous wife, Monique Murad took on the challenge to cook the 2016 Oscars dinner. I've been hosting these parties since 1999, and couldn't have been more delighted when my son  offered to carry on the tradition for the 88th annual Academy Awards.

The dinners began when my husband Julie slipped into the kitchen during the 70th Academy Awards and cooked a simple but elegant meal for me and my cousin Bill.  We shared it with him on the couch as we watched the Oscars. Over the years the event evolved into five course dinners for eight, then ten, then twelve - with each course keyed to one of the five best-picture nominees. The $1 admission fee collected from each guest went to whoever picked the most Oscar winners on the ballots handed out on arrival.

Eventually my husband created an amazing scoreboard with removable categories and contestants' names.When they expanded the category for best film for up to ten films I began assigning menu items to the many talented cooks among out attendees.. Some of  the dishes were very complex. For Michael Clayton, Briget Shields prepared a saganaki appetizer. This flaming Greek specialty was a tribute to the Volvo that exploded in the film.  Barbara Lebeau almost revolted when commissioned to make Richard Nixon out of pate for FROST.  The dinners became so popular and so overcrowded -- one year I served a ten course dinner to twenty six with our new electronic score board designed by Daniel McTiernan.

2009 Oscars Dinner Folks

Bill Feeney

Julie's re-usable scoreboard

Barbara Lebeau's 
Nixon pate for "FROST"

The 2016 Oscars Menu!!!

Appetizers:

THE REVENANT - Revenant Bear Liver Pate (well, it was really duck), but the pastry surrounding it made up for the absence of bear liver - SUPER YUMMY!

MAD MAX - THE FURY - Mad Max's Mother's Milk Baked Brie in puff pastry

Cocktail:

SPOTLIGHT - Mojitos served with flaming rum, creating the "Spotlight" (Benedicto's favorite)

BROOKLYN - Brooklyn brown bread

MARTIAN - Twice baked potatoes forced through a pastry bag, creating the canals which cover the red planet.

ROOM  - Mashed parsnips around the perimeter of a square serving dish filled with a variety of roasted mushROOMs.

THE BIG SHORT - our main event The Big Short Ribs.... mmm mmmm

STRAIGHT OUT OF COMPTON - Mac 'n Cheese  and Sauteed Greens.  requested by Sebastian and Nico.  Straight Out of Compton was one of my favorite films of 2015.

Dessert:

BRIDGE OF SPIES - Bridge of Pies - berry, banana cream, apple

So sorry, no pictures from our 2016 dinner -  our paparazzi fled to Ohio when they heard that Donald Trump might kick a dog .... I haven't seen any hard numbers, but it seems to me that 90% of the time when the media covers this campaign, (whether print, radio, video or online) the discussion focuses almost exclusively on Trump's latest antic.

October 2012 - Anne Feeney's Fellow Travelers' Advisory - VOLUME EIGHT, Number 4

IMMEDIATE DESTINATIONS:

CLEVELAND, OH

PITTSBURGH, PA

MERCER, PA

PITTSBURGH, PA

The Berrymans Return!  Don't Miss It!

I'm so pleased to be able to present Lou and Peter Berryman again.  Their shows are always so hilarious, inspiring and energizing.  Don't miss this chance to hear them in Pittsburgh.  This time they're traveling with our super talented pal Matt Watroba, who hosted the best folk show ever in Detroit for 22 years - "Folks Like Us" and now hosts a folk show online for Folk Alley.  He's a fabulously talented musician and he and I will both do some performing that evening.

Don't miss it! 

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Thursday, October 4th, 2012 7:30 PM

House Concert at Sue's!!

Sue's House

Cleveland Heights, OH

216-214-7673 

http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html

Price: $Suggested $15-25

Call or email Sue to make reservations and get directions.

suehanibal@gmail.com (wheelchair accessible)

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Sunday, October 7th, 2012 7:30 PM

Thomas Merton Center Fundraiser with Mike Stout and the Human Union

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

University Of Pittsburgh Campus

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-361-3022

http://mikestoutmusic.com/

I'll sing a couple songs at this show, too - support the Thomas Merton Center!

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Saturday, October 13th, 2012 10:00 AM

WE ARE ONE Rally - Join Us to Stand Strong for Public Education and Unions!!

Mercer County Courthouse Lawn

Mercer, PA

724-748-4972

Price: free

call Judy Hines at the number above for more information.

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Saturday, October 20th, 2012 8:00 PM

Peter and Lou Berryman in Concert

Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church

416 W North Ave

Pittsburgh, PA 15212

412.877-6480

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Thursday, November 8th, 2012 6:00 PM

Thomas Merton Center 40th Anniversary Party with Medea Benjamin!

Sherator Station Square

Pittsburgh, PA

http://thomasmertoncenter.org

Medea Benjamin founded Code Pink and will be a FABULOUS speaker.... don't miss this wonderful event! I'll be there and sing a few songs, too!

shows continuously updating at http://annefeeney.com/calendar.html

cds available for purchase or download at http://cdbaby.com/all/unionmaid

  

I had so much fun getting to sing for my pal Liana Kennedy's union - CUPE - (the Canadian Union of Public Employees) at the University of Victoria on my Canadian tour last month. And I spent a wonderful morning workshop with Vancouver's awesome Solidarity Notes choir!  And Michael Goodman and Sharon Sjerven hosted a lovely brunch for me.  Jim and Joey and Chris and Liana & Frances provided their usual fabulous hospitality, and all the presenters were great... thanks Tark, Karen, Ken & Carol. 

Congratulations to the Chicago Teachers!  Well done! I'm in Cleveland right now with the amazing president of ATU - Larry Hanley -  organizing a "Vote Transit" conference.  He's a fantastic true-blue trade unionist who truly knows which side he's on. (and he knows the value of labor culture!  hooray!)   I'm  predicting now that Republicans are NOT going to be able to vote for Romney.  They'll prefer a more moderate Republican like Barack Obama.  I'm hoping Obama maintains his lead in PA so that I can comfortably vote for Jill Stein without worrying that Romney would carry Pennsylvania.  (Pennsylvania is the state that James Carville described as 'a large state with a big city on each end and Alabama in the middle)  In 1972 Richard Nixon, then considered a right-wing Republican, supported a Guaranteed Annual Income for all Americans.  Can you imagine Obama doing that?  But still, I urge you all to vote. If voting didn't change anything they wouldn't have shoved so many Voter Suppression Acts through the legislatures.   Do it for the same reason you would pick up a piece of trash on the street.  It's not going to save the world, but it only takes a few minutes, and it's the right thing to do.  It certainly doesn't discharge your civic duties ... we must all continue to raise hell and work to build a better world.  

Two great Election Day videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypRW5qoraTw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceN-JBMZWOg (not for prudes...)

FRIENDS AND FAMILY - BIRTHDAYS AND SUCH

Casey Horne, Oct 5; my son Daniel Feeney Berlin, Oct 6; cousins Maureen Metcalfe and Jennifer Erin McCahill also Oct 6; Wonderful pal Jan Boyd, Oct 9; cousins Jill Merrill and Bill Feeney, Oct 16, never-to-be-forgotten dear friend Tim Sullivan, Oct 18; Shelley Belusar, Oct 20; cousin Steve Merrill, Oct 20; cousin Della Belmont McCahill, Oct 21; Mason Avery Gailiunas is 4 years old!, Oct 22; cousin Carolyn Weldon Mitchell, Oct 28; singer/songwriter Annie Dinerman, Oct 29.  Happy Birthday!

Monique (4th from left, looking right at the camera)  "Dancing Under the Stars" in Zimbabwe!

Karen Brandow is doing much better! Keep Jon Fromer and Jerry Tucker in your hearts, thoughts and prayers.  And add my wonderful activist friend Al Dale, from Bellingham, WA to your list.  He's really struggling to come back from a stroke.  Al's an amazing guy... among other things, he was the original faculty sponsor for the Black Panthers on campus at San Francisco state.  He and his wife of many years, Dotty, have been stalwart peace and justice activists for better than 6 decades.  You could send Al a get well card:

Al Dale

741 Chuckanut Dr

Bellingham, WA 98226

I was so saddened to hear of the passing of legendary Canadian feminist labor singer Arlene Mantle

http://lynnmantle.com/?section=bio

Hellraiser Arlene Mantle - 1939-2012

I'm going to be off for most of the rest of the year to help Amy any way that I can in planning her wedding.  It will be wonderful, too, to be in Pittsburgh with my husband and to work on some of the many domestic projects I have in mind.

Many many thanks to the generous friends who have stepped up to help me with my expenses. My bank account must have a sensor... as soon as anything accumulates in it, I have an economic meltdown commensurate with the amount...  last month I lost a tenant, had to paint the rental, replace the carpeting... just as my water heater and washer at home gave up the ghost.  always something.  I have a whole new round of doctor visits in October, but I'm expecting all good news!

If you're within 100 miles of Pittsburgh, you don't want to miss the Lou and Peter Berryman concert on October 20th..  See you there (I hope!)

Til next month,

Anne