Leaflet advertising a benefit concert and poetry reading featuring Tony Bird, Sylvia Ann Soares, a Representative of the African National Congress, and Bolu and The Roots of African Percussion at Calvary Baptist Church on June 15. The event is into remember the June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising and massacre and to welcome Nelson Mandela to the U.S. Tony Bird, a folk/rock singer, was born in Malawi of British colonial parents and rose to international prominence in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) and South Africa. He is compared to both master songwriter Bob Dylan and, in style, to Mick Jagger. Bird sings with poignancy of the beauty of southern Africa and the curse of apartheid and the crimes white people...
Leaflet advertising a benefit concert and poetry reading featuring Tony Bird, Sylvia Ann Soares, a Representative of the African National Congress, and Bolu and The Roots of African Percussion at Calvary Baptist Church on June 15. The event is into remember the June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising and massacre and to welcome Nelson Mandela to the U.S. Tony Bird, a folk/rock singer, was born in Malawi of British colonial parents and rose to international prominence in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia) and South Africa. He is compared to both master songwriter Bob Dylan and, in style, to Mick Jagger. Bird sings with poignancy of the beauty of southern Africa and the curse of apartheid and the crimes white people have perpetrated on Blacks. Bird has been featured on the television newsmagazine South Africa NOW. Sylvia Ann Soares will read poems by women of the African National Congress and other well-known exiled writers. Proceeds will benefit the anti-apartheid work of the African National Congress (ANC) and Rhode Island Divest. The event is sponsored by Rhode Island Divest and Stone Soup Coffeehouse.
