Coffeyville Community College welcomes Kerry Patrick Clark to the Spencer/Rounds Theatre on Tuesday, March 8 at 10:30 a.m. Admission is free.
Kerry Patrick Clark is a musical Norman Rockwell. His palette is a simple 12-note scale, a 6-string guitar and one voice that seeks to sing hope into the human experience. His songs are the compass that points the heart home.
Kerry is a former member of the folk group, The New Christy Minstrels, a Martin Guitar Preferred Artist and the singer/songwriter of the #1 folk song of 2014.
The program touches on the musical history of labor songs. American workers have long used music as either an anthem of unity as they gather or as a tool or weapon in their fight for social justice. Most labor songs were written as a response to some working condition or social injustice. By singing these songs, workers would not only build solidarity, but would be strengthened in their struggles.
Many labor songs were never written down or recorded. Some have survived. Some modern songs about the American Worker have roots that can be followed back to this time (late 1800s and early 1900s) when music was the medium that a frustrated work force used to celebrate the American Workers in song.